linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] uprobes: memory leak in enable/disable loop

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Message-ID: <20160817153603.GA29724@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Aug 2016 17:36:03 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Brenden Blanco <bblanco@...mgrid.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] uprobes: memory leak in enable/disable loop

On 08/16, Brenden Blanco wrote:
>
> This passes my tests, thanks!

Great, thanks Brenden!

> Please note that I applied this to 4.4.15+ubuntu-patches kernel, since that
> was what I had most handy, therefore I had to adjust the patch to remove the
> unavailable 'compound' bool parameter in 4.4 kernels.

Yes, sure, this is correct.

Ingo, could you take this fix? IMO 1/2 is 4.8 and -stable matterial.

As for 2/2 it is purely cosmetic but I simply can't resist, I wanted
to make this change every time I had to look at __replace_page().

Oleg.

 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 36 ++++++++++++++++++------------------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)