netdev - Re: [PATCH] SCTP: Free the per-net sysctl table on net exit.

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Message-ID: <20130124164439.GB20658@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>
Date:	Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:44:39 -0500
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org, mmokrejs@...d.natur.cuni.cz,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SCTP: Free the per-net sysctl table on net exit.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 11:02:47AM -0500, Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> Per-net sysctl table needs to be explicitly freed at
> net exit.  Otherwise we see the following with kmemleak:
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff880402d08000 (size 2048):
>   comm "chrome_sandbox", pid 18437, jiffies 4310887172 (age 9097.630s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     b2 68 89 81 ff ff ff ff 20 04 04 f8 01 88 ff ff  .h...... .......
>     04 00 00 00 a4 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff815b4aad>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x3e
>     [<ffffffff81110352>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x28/0x2a
>     [<ffffffff81113fad>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0xf1/0x104
>     [<ffffffff810f10c2>] kmemdup+0x1b/0x30
>     [<ffffffff81571e9f>] sctp_sysctl_net_register+0x1f/0x72
>     [<ffffffff8155d305>] sctp_net_init+0x100/0x39f
>     [<ffffffff814ad53c>] ops_init+0xc6/0xf5
>     [<ffffffff814ad5b7>] setup_net+0x4c/0xd0
>     [<ffffffff814ada5e>] copy_net_ns+0x6d/0xd6
>     [<ffffffff810938b1>] create_new_namespaces+0xd7/0x147
>     [<ffffffff810939f4>] copy_namespaces+0x63/0x99
>     [<ffffffff81076733>] copy_process+0xa65/0x1233
>     [<ffffffff81077030>] do_fork+0x10b/0x271
>     [<ffffffff8100a0e9>] sys_clone+0x23/0x25
>     [<ffffffff815dda73>] stub_clone+0x13/0x20
>     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> 
> Reported-by: Martin Mokrejs <mmokrejs@...d.natur.cuni.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@...il.com>
> CC: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> ---
>  net/sctp/sysctl.c |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/sctp/sysctl.c b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
> index 043889a..cd5712f 100644
> --- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c
> +++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
> @@ -366,7 +366,11 @@ int sctp_sysctl_net_register(struct net *net)
>  
>  void sctp_sysctl_net_unregister(struct net *net)
>  {
> +	struct ctl_table *table;
> +
> +	table = net->sctp.sysctl_hdr->ctl_table_arg;
>  	unregister_net_sysctl_table(net->sctp.sysctl_header);
> +	kfree(table);
>  }
>  
>  static struct ctl_table_header * sctp_sysctl_header;
> -- 
> 1.7.7.6
> 
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Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>

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