3.6.11.5 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" [ Upstream commit 60705c89460fdc7227f2d153b68b3f34814738a4 ] Special preds are created when folding a series of preds that can be done in serial. These are allocated in an ops field of the pred structure. But they were never freed, causing memory leaks. This was discovered using the kmemleak checker: unreferenced object 0xffff8800797fd5e0 (size 32): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294690605 (age 104.608s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 01 00 03 00 05 00 07 00 09 00 0b 00 0d 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98 [] kmemleak_alloc_recursive.constprop.42+0x16/0x18 [] __kmalloc+0xd7/0x125 [] kcalloc.constprop.24+0x2d/0x2f [] fold_pred_tree_cb+0xa9/0xf4 [] walk_pred_tree+0x47/0xcc [] replace_preds.isra.20+0x6f8/0x72f [] create_filter+0x4e/0x8b [] ftrace_test_event_filter+0x5a/0x155 [] do_one_initcall+0xa0/0x137 [] kernel_init_freeable+0x14d/0x1dc [] kernel_init+0xe/0xdb [] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 [] 0xffffffffffffffff Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.39+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c index 431dba8..289197a 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events_filter.c @@ -777,7 +777,11 @@ static int filter_set_pred(struct event_filter *filter, static void __free_preds(struct event_filter *filter) { + int i; + if (filter->preds) { + for (i = 0; i < filter->n_preds; i++) + kfree(filter->preds[i].ops); kfree(filter->preds); filter->preds = NULL; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/