[Devel] [PATCH] Fix leak on /proc/lockdep_stats

Alexey Dobriyan adobriyan at sw.ru
Tue Jul 17 05:57:36 PDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 02:36:10PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at sw.ru> wrote:
> 
> > On every open/close one struct seq_operations leaks.
> > Kudos to /proc/slab_allocators.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at sw.ru>
> 
> ouch ...
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte.hu>
> 
> -stable material too, as far as timer_info/stats goes.
>
> > -       .release        = seq_release,
> > +       .release        = single_release,
>
> i think seq_release() definitely needs to grow a WARN_ON() if it's being
> used on an inode that was opened via single_open(). This bug is so
> easily committed, and nothing but a small leak reminds us on it.

Yeah, I'll try to come up with something clean.

Meanwhile full single_open() audit revealed one more such leak.
The rest seems OK.

[PATCH] Fix leak on /proc/lockdep_stats

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan at sw.ru>
---

 kernel/lockdep_proc.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/lockdep_proc.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep_proc.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static const struct file_operations proc_lockdep_stats_operations = {
 	.open		= lockdep_stats_open,
 	.read		= seq_read,
 	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
-	.release	= seq_release,
+	.release	= single_release,
 };
 
 static int __init lockdep_proc_init(void)




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