From: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> memory leak was found by kmemleak. exit_cifs_spnego should be called before cifs module removed, or cifs root_cred will not be released. kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff880070a3ce40 (size 192): backtrace: kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 kmem_cache_alloc+0xc7/0x1d0 prepare_kernel_cred+0x20/0x120 init_cifs_spnego+0x2d/0x170 [cifs] 0xffffffffc07801f3 do_one_initcall+0x51/0x1b0 do_init_module+0x60/0x1fd load_module+0x161e/0x1b60 SYSC_finit_module+0xa9/0x100 SyS_finit_module+0xe/0x10 Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c index 180b3356ff86..a92bdb89bde3 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsfs.c @@ -1447,7 +1447,7 @@ exit_cifs(void) exit_cifs_idmap(); #endif #ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_UPCALL - unregister_key_type(&cifs_spnego_key_type); + exit_cifs_spnego(); #endif cifs_destroy_request_bufs(); cifs_destroy_mids(); -- 2.13.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html