kmemleak reports a leak after every mount-umount cycle: unreferenced object 0xffff88006b339150 (size 8): comm "mount.nfs", pid 752, jiffies 4294802777 (age 1515.620s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ backtrace: [<ffffffff816a9509>] kmemleak_alloc+0x79/0xb0 [<ffffffff811a9031>] __kmalloc+0x1e1/0x380 [<ffffffff81164110>] register_shrinker+0x40/0x90 [<ffffffff811c8f10>] sget+0x680/0x6a0 [<ffffffffa026a71c>] nfs_fs_mount_common+0x7c/0x180 [nfs] [<ffffffffa026a8e1>] nfs_xdev_mount+0xc1/0x100 [nfs] [<ffffffff811c9c1b>] mount_fs+0x7b/0x1a0 [<ffffffff811e7b0a>] vfs_kern_mount+0x6a/0xf0 [<ffffffffa0275735>] nfs_do_submount+0xe5/0x140 [nfs] [<ffffffffa02db6a6>] nfs4_submount+0x806/0x890 [nfsv4] [<ffffffffa02758d2>] nfs_d_automount+0xb2/0x1b0 [nfs] [<ffffffff811d0154>] follow_managed+0x1a4/0x300 [<ffffffff816b0533>] lookup_slow+0x7a/0xa9 [<ffffffff811d2373>] link_path_walk+0x243/0x8b0 [<ffffffff811d2a3b>] path_lookupat+0x5b/0x7c0 [<ffffffff811d31cb>] filename_lookup+0x2b/0xc0 Commit 1d3d4437 adds logic to kmalloc an array (nr_deferred) in register_shrinker(), but this array is not freed when the shrinker is released. Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/vmscan.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c index 53f2f82..eea668d 100644 --- a/mm/vmscan.c +++ b/mm/vmscan.c @@ -211,6 +211,7 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker *shrinker) down_write(&shrinker_rwsem); list_del(&shrinker->list); up_write(&shrinker_rwsem); + kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html