Re: [PATCH] kernfs: fix memleak in kernel_ops_readdir()

On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 11:45:18AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > Hello, > > On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 06:29:28AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > Hi, > > > > * Tejun Heo [691231 23:00]: > > > From: Andrea Arcangeli > > > > > > If getdents64 is killed or hits on segfault, it'll leave cgroups > > > dir

Re: [PATCH] kernfs: fix memleak in kernel_ops_readdir()

Hello, On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 06:29:28AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > Hi, > > * Tejun Heo [691231 23:00]: > > From: Andrea Arcangeli > > > > If getdents64 is killed or hits on segfault, it'll leave cgroups > > directories in sysfs pinned leaking memory because the kernfs node > > won't be fr

Re: [PATCH] kernfs: fix memleak in kernel_ops_readdir()

Hi, * Tejun Heo [691231 23:00]: > From: Andrea Arcangeli > > If getdents64 is killed or hits on segfault, it'll leave cgroups > directories in sysfs pinned leaking memory because the kernfs node > won't be freed on rmdir and the parent neither. Somehow this causes a regression in Linux next fo