This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled binder: fix memory leak in binder_init() to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: binder-fix-memory-leak-in-binder_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From adb9743d6a08778b78d62d16b4230346d3508986 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2023 15:49:37 +0000 Subject: binder: fix memory leak in binder_init() From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit adb9743d6a08778b78d62d16b4230346d3508986 upstream. In binder_init(), the destruction of binder_alloc_shrinker_init() is not performed in the wrong path, which will cause memory leaks. So this commit introduces binder_alloc_shrinker_exit() and calls it in the wrong path to fix that. Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f2517eb76f1f ("android: binder: Add global lru shrinker to binder") Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230625154937.64316-1-qi.zheng@xxxxxxxxx [cmllamas: resolved trivial merge conflicts] Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/android/binder.c | 1 + drivers/android/binder_alloc.c | 6 ++++++ drivers/android/binder_alloc.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/android/binder.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder.c @@ -5658,6 +5658,7 @@ err_init_binder_device_failed: err_alloc_device_names_failed: debugfs_remove_recursive(binder_debugfs_dir_entry_root); + binder_alloc_shrinker_exit(); return ret; } --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.c @@ -1033,3 +1033,9 @@ void binder_alloc_shrinker_init(void) list_lru_init(&binder_alloc_lru); register_shrinker(&binder_shrinker); } + +void binder_alloc_shrinker_exit(void) +{ + unregister_shrinker(&binder_shrinker); + list_lru_destroy(&binder_alloc_lru); +} --- a/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h +++ b/drivers/android/binder_alloc.h @@ -128,6 +128,7 @@ extern struct binder_buffer *binder_allo int is_async); extern void binder_alloc_init(struct binder_alloc *alloc); void binder_alloc_shrinker_init(void); +extern void binder_alloc_shrinker_exit(void); extern void binder_alloc_vma_close(struct binder_alloc *alloc); extern struct binder_buffer * binder_alloc_prepare_to_free(struct binder_alloc *alloc, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from zhengqi.arch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.14/binder-fix-memory-leak-in-binder_init.patch