Hi,

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> [...]
> --- a/fs/seq_file.c
> +++ b/fs/seq_file.c
> @@ -281,6 +281,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_lseek);
>  int seq_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
>       struct seq_file *m = (struct seq_file *)file->private_data;
> +
> +     if (m->seq_ops_allocated) {
> +             struct dentry *dentry = file->f_dentry;
> +             printk("memory leak: '%.*s'\n",
> +                     dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
> +             WARN_ON(1);
> +     }
>       kfree(m->buf);
>       kfree(m);
>       return 0;
> @@ -401,9 +408,12 @@ int single_open(struct file *file, int (*show)(struct 
> seq_file *, void *),
>               op->stop = single_stop;
>               op->show = show;
>               res = seq_open(file, op);
> -             if (!res)
> -                     ((struct seq_file *)file->private_data)->private = data;
> -             else
> +             if (!res) {
> +                     struct seq_file *seq = file->private_data;
> +
> +                     seq->private = data;
> +                     seq->seq_ops_allocated = 1;
> +             } else
>                       kfree(op);
>       }
>       return res;
> @@ -412,8 +422,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(single_open);
>  
>  int single_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  {
> -     const struct seq_operations *op = ((struct seq_file 
> *)file->private_data)->op;
> -     int res = seq_release(inode, file);
> +     struct seq_file *seq = file->private_data;
> +     const struct seq_operations *op = seq->op;
> +     int res;
> +
> +     /* All roads lead to seq_release(), so... */
> +     seq->seq_ops_allocated = 0;
> +     res = seq_release(inode, file);
>       kfree(op);
>       return res;
>  }
> --- a/include/linux/seq_file.h
> +++ b/include/linux/seq_file.h
> @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ struct seq_file {
>       struct mutex lock;
>       const struct seq_operations *op;
>       void *private;
> +     unsigned int seq_ops_allocated:1;
>  };
>  
>  struct seq_operations {

Hmm, curiously, I think this patch just killed the utility of having
single_release() around in the first place :-)

We might as well free the seq_file->op when we detect that we're
leaking it in seq_release() itself. That makes single_release() wholly
redundant to keep, and we can just convert all its users to seq_release()
itself. With less of these around, lesser probability of someone coding
a bug/leak in the first place!


Just my Rs. 0.02,

Satyam
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