From: Chunyu Hu Hit the kmemleak when executing instance_rmdir, it forgot releasing mem of tracing_cpumask. With this fix, the warn does not appear any more. unreferenced object 0xffff93a8dfaa7c18 (size 8): comm "mkdir", pid 1436, jiffies 4294763622 (age 9134.308s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ backtrace: [] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [] __kmalloc_node+0xf1/0x280 [] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x23/0x30 [] alloc_cpumask_var+0xe/0x10 [] instance_mkdir+0x90/0x240 [] tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x40/0x70 [] vfs_mkdir+0x109/0x1b0 [] SyS_mkdir+0xd0/0x100 [] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150 [] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a [] 0xffffffffffffffff Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500546969-12594-1-git-send-email-chuhu@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: ccfe9e42e451 ("tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances") Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 2d0ffcc49dba..42b9355033d4 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -7774,6 +7774,7 @@ static int instance_rmdir(const char *name) } kfree(tr->topts); + free_cpumask_var(tr->tracing_cpumask); kfree(tr->name); kfree(tr); -- 2.10.2