linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/36] KVM: s390: Fix memory leak of vcpu->run

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Date:	Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:06:37 +0200
From:	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
To:	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 04/36] KVM: s390: Fix memory leak of vcpu->run

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

The s390 backend of kvm never calls kvm_vcpu_uninit. This causes
a memory leak of vcpu->run pages.
Lets call kvm_vcpu_uninit in kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy to free
the vcpu->run.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@...ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
---
 arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
index 3db9e5d..76f05dd 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kvm/kvm-s390.c
@@ -198,6 +198,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_destroy(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
 	VCPU_EVENT(vcpu, 3, "%s", "free cpu");
 	free_page((unsigned long)(vcpu->arch.sie_block));
+	kvm_vcpu_uninit(vcpu);
 	kfree(vcpu);
 }
 
@@ -230,8 +231,7 @@ int kvm_arch_vcpu_init(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 
 void kvm_arch_vcpu_uninit(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu)
 {
-	/* kvm common code refers to this, but does'nt call it */
-	BUG();
+	/* Nothing todo */
 }
 
 void kvm_arch_vcpu_load(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu, int cpu)
-- 
1.6.0.3

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