2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu commit 29f12ca32122db98481150be09d35bd72b68045e upstream. Daniel Lezcano reported a leak in 'struct pid' and 'struct pid_namespace' that is discussed in: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/2/159. To summarize the thread, when container-init is terminated, it sets the PF_EXITING flag, zaps other processes in the container and waits to reap them. As a part of reaping, the container-init should flush any /proc dentries associated with the processes. But because the container-init is itself exiting and the following PF_EXITING check, the dentries are not flushed, resulting in leak in /proc inodes and dentries. This fix reverts the commit 7766755a2f249e7e0 ("Fix /proc dcache deadlock in do_exit") which introduced the check for PF_EXITING. At the time of the commit, shrink_dcache_parent() flushed dentries from other filesystems also and could have caused a deadlock which the commit fixed. But as pointed out by Eric Biederman, after commit 0feae5c47aabdde59, shrink_dcache_parent() no longer affects other filesystems. So reverting the commit is now safe. As pointed out by Jan Kara, the leak is not as critical since the unclaimed space will be reclaimed under memory pressure or by: echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches But since this check is no longer required, its best to remove it. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Reported-by: Daniel Lezcano Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman Acked-by: Jan Kara Cc: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Serge Hallyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/proc/base.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -2580,8 +2580,7 @@ static void proc_flush_task_mnt(struct v name.len = snprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), "%d", pid); dentry = d_hash_and_lookup(mnt->mnt_root, &name); if (dentry) { - if (!(current->flags & PF_EXITING)) - shrink_dcache_parent(dentry); + shrink_dcache_parent(dentry); d_drop(dentry); dput(dentry); } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/