perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace
authorVasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 05:47:02 +0000 (08:47 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 Nov 2017 08:47:27 +0000 (09:47 +0100)
commit0e18dd12064e07519f7cbff4149ca7fff620cbed
tree443be827dfc1bebf5eb95dcd2f8608a6fa4a2463
parent58ba4d5a25579e5c7e312bd359c95f3a9a0a242c
perf/core: Fix memory leak triggered by perf --namespace

perf with --namespace key leaks various memory objects including namespaces

  4.14.0+
  pid_namespace          1     12   2568   12    8
  user_namespace         1     39    824   39    8
  net_namespace          1      5   6272    5    8

This happen because perf_fill_ns_link_info() struct patch ns_path:
during initialization ns_path incremented counters on related mnt and dentry,
but without lost path_put nobody decremented them back.
Leaked dentry is name of related namespace,
and its leak does not allow to free unused namespace.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: commit e422267322cd ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c510711b-3904-e5e1-d296-61273d21118d@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c