The patch titled Subject: proc: account "struct pde_opener" has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is proc-account-struct-pde_opener.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/proc-account-struct-pde_opener.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/proc-account-struct-pde_opener.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: proc: account "struct pde_opener" The allocation is persistent in fact as any fool can open a file in /proc and sit on it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180214082409.GC17157@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/proc/inode.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/proc/inode.c~proc-account-struct-pde_opener fs/proc/inode.c --- a/fs/proc/inode.c~proc-account-struct-pde_opener +++ a/fs/proc/inode.c @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ void __init proc_init_kmemcache(void) init_once); pde_opener_cache = kmem_cache_create("pde_opener", sizeof(struct pde_opener), 0, - SLAB_PANIC, NULL); + SLAB_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC, NULL); } static int proc_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct dentry *root) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are proc-do-less-stuff-under-pde_unload_lock.patch proc-move-proc-sysvipc-creation-to-where-it-belongs.patch proc-faster-open-close-of-files-without-release-hook.patch proc-randomize-struct-pde_opener.patch proc-move-struct-pde_opener-to-kmem-cache.patch proc-account-struct-pde_opener.patch seq_file-delete-small-value-optimization.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html