linux-kernel - 3.12-rc3 memory leak in module memstick

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Date:	Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:51:28 -0500
From:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:	Alex Dubov <oakad@...oo.com>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: 3.12-rc3 memory leak in module memstick

On 3.12-rc3, I detected a memory leak in module memstick. The kmemleak results 
are listed below. The second output is after memstick was unloaded, which shows 
that it is not a false positive from kmemleak.

larrylap:~ # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
larrylap:~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff8800ae85c190 (size 16):
   comm "kworker/u4:3", pid 685, jiffies 4294916336 (age 2831.760s)
   hex dump (first 16 bytes):
     6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  memstick0.......
   backtrace:
     [<ffffffff8146a0d1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
     [<ffffffff81160720>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x160/0x2f0
     [<ffffffff81237b9b>] kvasprintf+0x5b/0x90
     [<ffffffff8122c0c1>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x60
     [<ffffffff812e7f5c>] dev_set_name+0x3c/0x40
     [<ffffffffa02bf918>] memstick_check+0xb8/0x340 [memstick]
     [<ffffffff81069862>] process_one_work+0x1d2/0x670
     [<ffffffff8106a88a>] worker_thread+0x11a/0x370
     [<ffffffff81072ea6>] kthread+0xd6/0xe0
     [<ffffffff81478bbc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
larrylap:~ # modprobe -rv r592
rmmod /lib/modules/3.12.0-rc3-wl+/kernel/drivers/memstick/host/r592.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/3.12.0-rc3-wl+/kernel/drivers/memstick/core/memstick.ko
larrylap:~ # echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
larrylap:~ # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff8800ae85c190 (size 16):
   comm "kworker/u4:3", pid 685, jiffies 4294916336 (age 2947.576s)
   hex dump (first 16 bytes):
     6d 65 6d 73 74 69 63 6b 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  memstick0.......
   backtrace:
     [<ffffffff8146a0d1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
     [<ffffffff81160720>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x160/0x2f0
     [<ffffffff81237b9b>] kvasprintf+0x5b/0x90
     [<ffffffff8122c0c1>] kobject_set_name_vargs+0x21/0x60
     [<ffffffff812e7f5c>] dev_set_name+0x3c/0x40
     [<ffffffffa02bf918>] 0xffffffffa02bf918
     [<ffffffff81069862>] process_one_work+0x1d2/0x670
     [<ffffffff8106a88a>] worker_thread+0x11a/0x370
     [<ffffffff81072ea6>] kthread+0xd6/0xe0
     [<ffffffff81478bbc>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
larrylap:~ #

As I have not had this driver enabled in my configuration for very long, I'm not 
sure when this behavior started, but it is definitely present in 3.11.0.

Thanks,

Larry

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