On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 03:15:20PM +0800, Zqiang wrote: > The kmemleak kthread scan to the following: > > unreferenced object 0xffff95d941135b50 (size 16): > comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294667610 (age 1367.451s) > hex dump (first 16 bytes): > f0 c6 c2 bd d9 95 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ > backtrace: > [<00000000bc81d9b1>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2f6/0x500 > [<00000000d28be229>] rcu_torture_init+0x1235/0x1354 > [<0000000032c3acd9>] do_one_initcall+0x51/0x210 > [<000000003c117727>] kernel_init_freeable+0x205/0x259 > [<000000003961f965>] kernel_init+0x1a/0x120 > [<000000001998f890>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 > > the rhp object is not released after use, so call kfree() to > release it. > > Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Good catch, thank you! I queued this for v5.20 with the wordsmithed commit log shown below. Thanx, Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------ commit 1a2df31f4026dbc8dc4db17a4c2ed01e67f45c92 Author: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Apr 27 15:15:20 2022 +0800 rcutorture: Fix memory leak in rcu_test_debug_objects() The kernel memory leak detector located the following: unreferenced object 0xffff95d941135b50 (size 16): comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294667610 (age 1367.451s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): f0 c6 c2 bd d9 95 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000bc81d9b1>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x2f6/0x500 [<00000000d28be229>] rcu_torture_init+0x1235/0x1354 [<0000000032c3acd9>] do_one_initcall+0x51/0x210 [<000000003c117727>] kernel_init_freeable+0x205/0x259 [<000000003961f965>] kernel_init+0x1a/0x120 [<000000001998f890>] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 This is caused by the rcu_test_debug_objects() function allocating an rcu_head structure, then failing to free it. This commit therefore adds the needed kfree() after the last use of this structure. Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c index bb2e1610d0add..faf6b4c7a7572 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c @@ -3176,6 +3176,7 @@ static void rcu_test_debug_objects(void) pr_alert("%s: WARN: Duplicate call_rcu() test complete.\n", KBUILD_MODNAME); destroy_rcu_head_on_stack(&rh1); destroy_rcu_head_on_stack(&rh2); + kfree(rhp); #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD */ pr_alert("%s: !CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, not testing duplicate call_rcu()\n", KBUILD_MODNAME); #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD */