On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 19:52 +0200, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote: > Dear all, > > On 24. 10. 2022. 20:56, Mirsad Goran Todorovac wrote: > > On 24. 10. 2022. 20:39, srinivas pandruvada wrote: > > > > > > Thank you for the patch. Unfortunately, when applied to v6.0.3 > > > > it > > > > didn't > > > > fix the issue. > > > Thanks for the test. I copied to acpi and acpica mailing list. > > > Someone > > > can tell us what is this call doing wrong here. > > I have worse news: after every > > # systemctl stop thermald > # systemctl start thermald > > the number of leaks increases by one allocated block (apparently 80 > bytes). The effect appears to be > cummulative. > > Please find the results of the MEMLEAK scan in the attachment. > > In theory, motivated adversary could theoretically exhaust i.e. 8 > GiB > in a loop of 10 million thermald stops/starts, Of course it needs to be debugged. To start/stop systemctl service you need root access. If you have root access, there are other worse things can be done. Thanks, Srinivas > on my laptop and 2 sec for stop+start, it would be approx. 230 days. > > Hope this helps. > > Mirsad > > -- > > Mirsad Goran Todorovac > Sistem inženjer > Grafički fakultet | Akademija likovnih umjetnosti > Sveučilište u Zagrebu