4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Vasily Averin <[email protected]> [ Upstream commit 0e18dd12064e07519f7cbff4149ca7fff620cbed ] 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 <[email protected]> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <[email protected]> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]> Cc: Hari Bathini <[email protected]> Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Fixes: commit e422267322cd ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- kernel/events/core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6756,6 +6756,7 @@ static void perf_fill_ns_link_info(struc ns_inode = ns_path.dentry->d_inode; ns_link_info->dev = new_encode_dev(ns_inode->i_sb->s_dev); ns_link_info->ino = ns_inode->i_ino; + path_put(&ns_path); } }

