When the cxl driver creates a context, it stores the pid of the
calling task, and mistakenly increments the reference count of the
struct pid twice, once through get_task_pid(), once through
get_pid(). The reference count is only decremented once on detach. As
a result, a struct pid is leaked and it reduces the number of
processes that can run simultaneously by one.
The fix is to simply remove the call to get_pid().
There is a separate patch for the user API, since it goes to
different kernel versions.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.3+
---
drivers/misc/cxl/api.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
index 103baf0..94b6627 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/api.c
@@ -176,7 +176,6 @@ int cxl_start_context(struct cxl_context *ctx, u64 wed,
if (task) {
ctx->pid = get_task_pid(task, PIDTYPE_PID);
- get_pid(ctx->pid);
kernel = false;
}
--
1.9.1
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