The patch titled Subject: mm: slub: fix the leak of alloc/free traces debugfs interface has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-slub-move-sysfs-slab-alloc-free-interfaces-to-debugfs-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-slub-move-sysfs-slab-alloc-free-interfaces-to-debugfs-fix.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-slub-move-sysfs-slab-alloc-free-interfaces-to-debugfs-fix.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Faiyaz Mohammed <faiyazm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: slub: fix the leak of alloc/free traces debugfs interface Fix the leak of alloc/free traces debugfs interface, reported by kmemleak like below, unreferenced object 0xffff00091ae1b540 (size 64): comm "lsbug", pid 1607, jiffies 4294958291 (age 1476.340s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b ........kkkkkkkk 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b 6b kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk backtrace: [<ffff8000106b06b8>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0xa0/0x418 [<ffff8000106b5c7c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1e4/0x378 [<ffff8000106b5e40>] slab_debugfs_start+0x30/0x50 slab_debugfs_start at mm/slub.c:5831 [<ffff8000107b3dbc>] seq_read_iter+0x214/0xd50 [<ffff8000107b4b84>] seq_read+0x28c/0x418 [<ffff8000109560b4>] full_proxy_read+0xdc/0x148 [<ffff800010738f24>] vfs_read+0x104/0x340 [<ffff800010739ee0>] ksys_read+0xf8/0x1e0 [<ffff80001073a03c>] __arm64_sys_read+0x74/0xa8 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1624248060-30286-1-git-send-email-faiyazm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 3589836402ca ("mm: slub: move sysfs slab alloc/free interfaces to debugfs") Link: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/mm/slub.c?h=next-20210617&id=84a2bdb1b458fc968d6d9e07dab388dc679bd747 Signed-off-by: Faiyaz Mohammed <faiyazm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/slub.c | 20 ++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) --- a/mm/slub.c~mm-slub-move-sysfs-slab-alloc-free-interfaces-to-debugfs-fix +++ a/mm/slub.c @@ -5781,31 +5781,23 @@ static int slab_debugfs_show(struct seq_ static void slab_debugfs_stop(struct seq_file *seq, void *v) { - kfree(v); } static void *slab_debugfs_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *ppos) { - loff_t *spos = v; struct loc_track *t = seq->private; - if (*ppos < t->count) { - *ppos = ++*spos; - return spos; - } - *ppos = ++*spos; + v = ppos; + ++*ppos; + if (*ppos <= t->count) + return v; + return NULL; } static void *slab_debugfs_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t *ppos) { - loff_t *spos = kmalloc(sizeof(loff_t), GFP_KERNEL); - - if (!spos) - return NULL; - - *spos = *ppos; - return spos; + return ppos; } static const struct seq_operations slab_debugfs_sops = { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from faiyazm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-slub-move-sysfs-slab-alloc-free-interfaces-to-debugfs.patch mm-slub-move-sysfs-slab-alloc-free-interfaces-to-debugfs-fix.patch