[PATCH] kcm: fix /proc memory leak
From: Jiri Slaby <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-20 10:24:03
Every open of /proc/net/kcm leaks 16 bytes of memory as is reported by
kmemleak:
unreferenced object 0xffff88059c0e3458 (size 192):
comm "cat", pid 1401, jiffies 4294935742 (age 310.720s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
28 45 71 96 05 88 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 (Eq.............
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8156a2de>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16e/0x230
[<ffffffff8162a479>] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0
[<ffffffffa0578510>] kcm_seq_open+0x0/0x30 [kcm]
[<ffffffff8162a479>] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0
[<ffffffff8162a8cf>] __seq_open_private+0x2f/0xa0
[<ffffffff81712548>] seq_open_net+0x38/0xa0
...
It is caused by a missing free in the ->release path. So fix it by
providing seq_release_net as the ->release method.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <redacted>
Fixes: cd6e111bf5 (kcm: Add statistics and proc interfaces)
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Tom Herbert <redacted>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
---
net/kcm/kcmproc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/kcm/kcmproc.c b/net/kcm/kcmproc.c
index 738008726cc6..fda7f4715c58 100644
--- a/net/kcm/kcmproc.c
+++ b/net/kcm/kcmproc.c@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcm_seq_fops = { .open = kcm_seq_open, .read = seq_read, .llseek = seq_lseek, + .release = seq_release_net, }; static struct kcm_seq_muxinfo kcm_seq_muxinfo = {
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