The patch titled
statistics infrastructure: fix cpu hot unplug related memory leak
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
statistics-infrastructure-fix-cpu-hot-unplug-related-memory-leak.patch
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Subject: statistics infrastructure: fix cpu hot unplug related memory leak
From: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
In case of CPU hotunplug statistics might have leaked some memory (lists of
struct statistic_entry_sparse, about 32 byte each, freed by
statistic_sparse_reset()).
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/statistic.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff -puN lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-fix-cpu-hot-unplug-related-memory-leak lib/statistic.c
--- a/lib/statistic.c~statistics-infrastructure-fix-cpu-hot-unplug-related-memory-leak
+++ a/lib/statistic.c
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ static int _statistic_hotcpu(struct stat
src = percpu_ptr(stat->data, cpu);
disc->merge(stat, dst, src);
local_irq_restore(flags);
+ disc->reset(stat, src);
percpu_depopulate(stat->data, cpu);
break;
}
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from mp3@xxxxxxxxxx are
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-list.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-parser.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-parser-fix.patch
add-for_each_substring-and-match_substring.patch
statistics-infrastructure-prerequisite-timestamp.patch
statistics-infrastructure-make-printk_clock-a-generic-kernel-wide-nsec-resolution.patch
statistics-infrastructure-documentation.patch
statistics-infrastructure.patch
statistics-infrastructure-add-for_each_substring-and-match_substring-exploitation.patch
statistics-infrastructure-fix-parsing-of-statistics-type-attribute.patch
statistics-infrastructure-simplify-statistics-debugfs-write-function.patch
statistics-infrastructure-simplify-statistics-debugfs-read-functions.patch
statistics-infrastructure-fix-string-termination.patch
statistics-infrastructure-small-cleanup-in-debugfs-write-function.patch
statistics-infrastructure-fix-cpu-hot-unplug-related-memory-leak.patch
statistics-infrastructure-exploitation-zfcp.patch
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