+ mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred.patch added to -mm tree

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Subject: + mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred.patch added to -mm tree
To: avagin@xxxxxxxxxx,glommer@xxxxxxxxxx,hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,mgorman@xxxxxxx,mhocko@xxxxxxx,riel@xxxxxxxxxx
From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 15:02:34 -0700


The patch titled
     Subject: mm/vmscan.c: don't forget to free shrinker->nr_deferred
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred.patch
and later at
    http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred.patch

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From: Andrew Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: mm/vmscan.c: don't forget to free shrinker->nr_deferred

This leak was added by 1d3d4437eae ("vmscan: per-node deferred work").

unreferenced object 0xffff88006ada3bd0 (size 8):
  comm "criu", pid 14781, jiffies 4295238251 (age 105.641s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00                          ........
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8170caee>] kmemleak_alloc+0x5e/0xc0
    [<ffffffff811c0527>] __kmalloc+0x247/0x310
    [<ffffffff8117848c>] register_shrinker+0x3c/0xa0
    [<ffffffff811e115b>] sget+0x5ab/0x670
    [<ffffffff812532f4>] proc_mount+0x54/0x170
    [<ffffffff811e1893>] mount_fs+0x43/0x1b0
    [<ffffffff81202dd2>] vfs_kern_mount+0x72/0x110
    [<ffffffff81202e89>] kern_mount_data+0x19/0x30
    [<ffffffff812530a0>] pid_ns_prepare_proc+0x20/0x40
    [<ffffffff81083c56>] alloc_pid+0x466/0x4a0
    [<ffffffff8105aeda>] copy_process+0xc6a/0x1860
    [<ffffffff8105beab>] do_fork+0x8b/0x370
    [<ffffffff8105c1a6>] SyS_clone+0x16/0x20
    [<ffffffff8171f739>] stub_clone+0x69/0x90
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Andrew Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 mm/vmscan.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff -puN mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred mm/vmscan.c
--- a/mm/vmscan.c~mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred
+++ a/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -211,6 +211,8 @@ void unregister_shrinker(struct shrinker
 	down_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
 	list_del(&shrinker->list);
 	up_write(&shrinker_rwsem);
+
+	kfree(shrinker->nr_deferred);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_shrinker);
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from avagin@xxxxxxxxxx are

mm-vmscanc-dont-forget-to-free-shrinker-nr_deferred.patch

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