Re: [PATCHv2] KVM: x86: Fix memory leak in vmx.c

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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 10:54:32AM -0700, Andrew Honig wrote:
> 
> If userspace creates and destroys multiple VMs within the same process
> we leak 20k of memory in the userspace process context per VM.  This
> patch frees the memory in kvm_arch_destroy_vm.  If the process exits
> without closing the VM file descriptor or the file descriptor has been
> shared with another process then we don't need to free the memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Honig <ahonig@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kvm/x86.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> index e172132..e93e16b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/x86.c
> @@ -6811,6 +6811,23 @@ void kvm_arch_sync_events(struct kvm *kvm)
>  
>  void kvm_arch_destroy_vm(struct kvm *kvm)
>  {
> +	if (current->mm == kvm->mm) {
> +		/*
> +		 * Free memory regions allocated on behalf of userspace,
> +		 * unless the the memory map has changed due to process exit
> +		 * or fd copying.
> +		 */
> +		struct kvm_userspace_memory_region mem;
> +		memset(&mem, 0, sizeof(mem));
> +		mem.slot = APIC_ACCESS_PAGE_PRIVATE_MEMSLOT;
> +		kvm_set_memory_region(kvm, &mem, 0);
> +
> +		mem.slot = IDENTITY_PAGETABLE_PRIVATE_MEMSLOT;
> +		kvm_set_memory_region(kvm, &mem, 0);
> +
> +		mem.slot = TSS_PRIVATE_MEMSLOT;
> +		kvm_set_memory_region(kvm, &mem, 0);
You should code it against next branch. kvm_set_memory_region() has only
two parameters there.

> +	}
>  	kvm_iommu_unmap_guest(kvm);
>  	kfree(kvm->arch.vpic);
>  	kfree(kvm->arch.vioapic);
> -- 
> 1.7.10.4
> 
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