linux-kernel - [PATCH] MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd

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Message-Id: <20220310113116.2068859-1-yaliang.wang@windriver.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:31:16 +0800
From:   yaliang.wang@...driver.com
To:     rppt@...nel.org, tsbogend@...ha.franken.de, huangpei@...ngson.cn,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kumba@...too.org, geert@...ux-m68k.org,
        anshuman.khandual@....com, Yaliang.Wang@...driver.com,
        penberg@...nel.org
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] MIPS: pgalloc: fix memory leak caused by pgd_free()

From: Yaliang Wang <Yaliang.Wang@...driver.com>

pgd page is freed by generic implementation pgd_free() since commit
f9cb654cb550 ("asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free()"),
however, there are scenarios that the system uses more than one page as
the pgd table, in such cases the generic implementation pgd_free() won't
be applicable anymore. For example, when PAGE_SIZE_4KB is enabled and
MIPS_VA_BITS_48 is not enabled in a 64bit system, the macro "PGD_ORDER"
will be set as "1", which will cause allocating two pages as the pgd
table. Well, at the same time, the generic implementation pgd_free()
just free one pgd page, which will result in the memory leak.

The memory leak can be easily detected by executing shell command:
"while true; do ls > /dev/null; grep MemFree /proc/meminfo; done"

Fixes: f9cb654cb550 ("asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free()")
Signed-off-by: Yaliang Wang <Yaliang.Wang@...driver.com>
---
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
index c7925d0e9874..867e9c3db76e 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgalloc.h
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PMD_ALLOC_ONE
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PUD_ALLOC_ONE
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PGD_FREE
 #include <asm-generic/pgalloc.h>
 
 static inline void pmd_populate_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd,
@@ -48,6 +49,11 @@ static inline void pud_populate(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud, pmd_t *pmd)
 extern void pgd_init(unsigned long page);
 extern pgd_t *pgd_alloc(struct mm_struct *mm);
 
+static inline void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
+{
+	free_pages((unsigned long)pgd, PGD_ORDER);
+}
+
 #define __pte_free_tlb(tlb,pte,address)			\
 do {							\
 	pgtable_pte_page_dtor(pte);			\
-- 
2.25.1