Files
linux/kernel
Steven Rostedt (Google) 31785cf817 ring-buffer: Fix memory leak of free page
commit 17d801758157bec93f26faaf5ff1a8b9a552d67a upstream.

Reading the ring buffer does a swap of a sub-buffer within the ring buffer
with a empty sub-buffer. This allows the reader to have full access to the
content of the sub-buffer that was swapped out without having to worry
about contention with the writer.

The readers call ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to allocate a page that
will be used to swap with the ring buffer. When the code is finished with
the reader page, it calls ring_buffer_free_read_page(). Instead of freeing
the page, it stores it as a spare. Then next call to
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() will return this spare instead of calling
into the memory management system to allocate a new page.

Unfortunately, on freeing of the ring buffer, this spare page is not
freed, and causes a memory leak.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231210221250.7b9cc83c@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 73a757e631 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-12-20 17:00:27 +01:00
..
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-12-31 13:33:11 +01:00
2022-08-29 19:47:03 -04:00
2022-09-26 10:13:13 -07:00
2023-12-20 17:00:20 +01:00
2023-11-28 17:06:57 +00:00
2022-12-31 13:33:08 +01:00
2022-06-29 13:07:16 +02:00
2022-02-25 09:36:06 +01:00