Do not use kmalloc() but kmem_cache_alloc() for the allocation
of the kmem_cache structures in slub.
This is the way its supposed to be. Recent merges lost
the freeing of the kmem_cache structure and so this is also
fixing memory leak on kmem_cache_destroy() by adding
the missing free action to sysfs_slab_remove().
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx>
Index: linux-2.6/mm/slub.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/mm/slub.c 2012-07-31 11:58:40.617457553 -0500
+++ linux-2.6/mm/slub.c 2012-07-31 11:58:47.529574942 -0500
@@ -3938,7 +3938,7 @@
if (!n)
return NULL;
- s = kmalloc(kmem_size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ s = kmem_cache_alloc(kmem_cache, GFP_KERNEL);
if (s) {
if (kmem_cache_open(s, n,
size, align, flags, ctor)) {
@@ -5318,6 +5318,8 @@
kobject_uevent(&s->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&s->kobj);
kobject_put(&s->kobj);
+ kfree(s->name);
+ kmem_cache_free(kmem_cache, s);
}
/*
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