After unregistering the CPU idle device, the memory associated with
it is not freed, leading to a memory leak:
unreferenced object 0xffff896282f6c000 (size 1024):
comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294893170
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 0b 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc 8836a742):
[<ffffffff993495ed>] kmalloc_trace+0x29d/0x340
[<ffffffff9972f3b3>] acpi_processor_power_init+0xf3/0x1c0
[<ffffffff9972d263>] __acpi_processor_start+0xd3/0xf0
[<ffffffff9972d2bc>] acpi_processor_start+0x2c/0x50
[<ffffffff99805872>] really_probe+0xe2/0x480
[<ffffffff99805c98>] __driver_probe_device+0x78/0x160
[<ffffffff99805daf>] driver_probe_device+0x1f/0x90
[<ffffffff9980601e>] __driver_attach+0xce/0x1c0
[<ffffffff99803170>] bus_for_each_dev+0x70/0xc0
[<ffffffff99804822>] bus_add_driver+0x112/0x210
[<ffffffff99807245>] driver_register+0x55/0x100
[<ffffffff9aee4acb>] acpi_processor_driver_init+0x3b/0xc0
[<ffffffff990012d1>] do_one_initcall+0x41/0x300
[<ffffffff9ae7c4b0>] kernel_init_freeable+0x320/0x470
[<ffffffff99b231f6>] kernel_init+0x16/0x1b0
[<ffffffff99042e6d>] ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x50
Fix this by freeing the CPU idle device after unregistering it.
Fixes: 3d339dcbb56d ("cpuidle / ACPI : move cpuidle_device field out of the acpi_processor_power structure")
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
index 55437f5e0c3a..bd6a7857ce05 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/processor_idle.c
@@ -1430,6 +1430,8 @@ int acpi_processor_power_exit(struct acpi_processor *pr)
acpi_processor_registered--;
if (acpi_processor_registered == 0)
cpuidle_unregister_driver(&acpi_idle_driver);
+
+ kfree(dev);
}
pr->flags.power_setup_done = 0;
--
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