This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
fs/fscache/stats.c: fix memory leak
to the 3.8-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:
fs-fscache-stats.c-fix-memory-leak.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ec686c9239b4d472052a271c505d04dae84214cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anurup m <anurup.m@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 15:05:52 -0700
Subject: fs/fscache/stats.c: fix memory leak
From: Anurup m <anurup.m@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit ec686c9239b4d472052a271c505d04dae84214cc upstream.
There is a kernel memory leak observed when the proc file
/proc/fs/fscache/stats is read.
The reason is that in fscache_stats_open, single_open is called and the
respective release function is not called during release. Hence fix
with correct release function - single_release().
Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=57101
Signed-off-by: Anurup m <anurup.m@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: shyju pv <shyju.pv@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Sanil kumar <sanil.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Nataraj m <nataraj.m@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fscache/stats.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/fscache/stats.c
+++ b/fs/fscache/stats.c
@@ -287,5 +287,5 @@ const struct file_operations fscache_sta
.open = fscache_stats_open,
.read = seq_read,
.llseek = seq_lseek,
- .release = seq_release,
+ .release = single_release,
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from anurup.m@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/fs-fscache-stats.c-fix-memory-leak.patch
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