When upcalling gssproxy, cache_head.expiry_time is set as a timeval, not seconds since boot. As such, RPC cache expiry logic will not clean expired objects created under auth.rpcsec.context cache. This has proven to cause kernel memory leaks on field. Using 64 bit variants of getboottime/timespec Signed-off-by: Roberto Bergantinos Corpas <rbergant@xxxxxxxxxx> --- net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c index 7511a68aadf0..65b67b257302 100644 --- a/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c +++ b/net/sunrpc/auth_gss/svcauth_gss.c @@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ static int gss_proxy_save_rsc(struct cache_detail *cd, dprintk("RPC: No creds found!\n"); goto out; } else { + struct timespec64 boot; /* steal creds */ rsci.cred = ud->creds; @@ -1268,6 +1269,9 @@ static int gss_proxy_save_rsc(struct cache_detail *cd, &expiry, GFP_KERNEL); if (status) goto out; + + getboottime64(&boot); + expiry -= boot.tv_sec; } rsci.h.expiry_time = expiry; -- 2.21.0