Thread (50 messages) 50 messages, 3 authors, 2022-01-06

Re: [PATCH 01/20] perf nsinfo: fix refcounting

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Date: 2021-07-15 19:52:32
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Subsystem: performance events subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Peter Zijlstra, Ingo Molnar, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Namhyung Kim, Linus Torvalds

Em Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 04:02:16PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
Em Thu, Jul 15, 2021 at 06:07:06PM +0200, Riccardo Mancini escreveu:
quoted
ASan reports a memory leak of nsinfo during the execution of the perf
test "31: Lookup mmap thread".
The leak is caused by a refcounted variable being replaced without
dropping the refcount.
quoted
This patch makes sure that the refcnt of nsinfo is decreased whenever
a refcounted variable is replaced with a new value.
So, there are multiple fixes in just one patch, I'll split it into
three, no need to resend.
I'll try and check if finding Fixes: for the three is easy, that way
stable@vger.kernel.org will figure out which of the supported releases
need each of them.
The second is at the end of this message, and looking at it I think
there is a problem with where this nsinfo reference is stored, it should
be in the 'struct map', that is per-thread, not in the 'struct dso',
that may be shared by multiple 'struct map's in different cgroups, so we
can't set dso->nsinfo in map__new(), right? Kristen?

- Arnaldo

commit 280f3933661f9ca9563ed04ce82313fdbcbb8f75
Author: Riccardo Mancini [off-list ref]
Date:   Thu Jul 15 18:07:06 2021 +0200

    perf map: Fix dso->nsinfo refcounting
    
    ASan reports a memory leak of nsinfo during the execution of
    
      # perf test "31: Lookup mmap thread"
    
    The leak is caused by a refcounted variable being replaced without
    dropping the refcount.
    
    This patch makes sure that the refcnt of nsinfo is decreased whenever a
    refcounted variable is replaced with a new value.
    
    Signed-off-by: Riccardo Mancini [off-list ref]
    Fixes: bf2e710b3cb8445c ("perf maps: Lookup maps in both intitial mountns and inner mountns.")
    Cc: Ian Rogers [off-list ref]
    Cc: Jiri Olsa [off-list ref]
    Cc: Krister Johansen [off-list ref]
    Cc: Mark Rutland [off-list ref]
    Cc: Namhyung Kim [off-list ref]
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra [off-list ref]
    Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/55223bc8821b34ccb01f92ef1401c02b6a32e61f.1626343282.git.rickyman7@gmail.com (local)
    Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [off-list ref]
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/map.c b/tools/perf/util/map.c
index 8af693d9678cefe0..72e7f3616157ead4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/map.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/map.c
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ struct map *map__new(struct machine *machine, u64 start, u64 len,
 			if (!(prot & PROT_EXEC))
 				dso__set_loaded(dso);
 		}
+
+		nsinfo__put(dso->nsinfo);
 		dso->nsinfo = nsi;
 
 		if (build_id__is_defined(bid))
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