Patch "KVM: arm/arm64: Stop leaking vcpu pid references" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    KVM: arm/arm64: Stop leaking vcpu pid references

to the 4.6-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:
     kvm-arm-arm64-stop-leaking-vcpu-pid-references.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 591d215afcc2f94e8e2c69a63c924c044677eb31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 17:24:45 +0100
Subject: KVM: arm/arm64: Stop leaking vcpu pid references

From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>

commit 591d215afcc2f94e8e2c69a63c924c044677eb31 upstream.

kvm provides kvm_vcpu_uninit(), which amongst other things, releases the
last reference to the struct pid of the task that was last running the vcpu.

On arm64 built with CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK, starting a guest with kvmtool,
then killing it with SIGKILL results (after some considerable time) in:
> cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
> unreferenced object 0xffff80007d5ea080 (size 128):
>  comm "lkvm", pid 2025, jiffies 4294942645 (age 1107.776s)
>  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
>  backtrace:
>    [<ffff8000001b30ec>] create_object+0xfc/0x278
>    [<ffff80000071da34>] kmemleak_alloc+0x34/0x70
>    [<ffff80000019fa2c>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x16c/0x1d8
>    [<ffff8000000d0474>] alloc_pid+0x34/0x4d0
>    [<ffff8000000b5674>] copy_process.isra.6+0x79c/0x1338
>    [<ffff8000000b633c>] _do_fork+0x74/0x320
>    [<ffff8000000b66b0>] SyS_clone+0x18/0x20
>    [<ffff800000085cb0>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28
>    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

On x86 kvm_vcpu_uninit() is called on the path from kvm_arch_destroy_vm(),
on arm no equivalent call is made. Add the call to kvm_arch_vcpu_free().

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
Fixes: 749cf76c5a36 ("KVM: ARM: Initial skeleton to compile KVM support")
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 arch/arm/kvm/arm.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
+++ b/arch/arm/kvm/arm.c
@@ -267,6 +267,7 @@ void kvm_arch_vcpu_free(struct kvm_vcpu
 	kvm_timer_vcpu_terminate(vcpu);
 	kvm_vgic_vcpu_destroy(vcpu);
 	kvm_pmu_vcpu_destroy(vcpu);
+	kvm_vcpu_uninit(vcpu);
 	kmem_cache_free(kvm_vcpu_cache, vcpu);
 }
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from james.morse@xxxxxxx are

queue-4.6/arm64-kernel-save-and-restore-uao-and-addr_limit-on-exception-entry.patch
queue-4.6/kvm-arm-arm64-stop-leaking-vcpu-pid-references.patch
queue-4.6/arm64-fix-dump_instr-when-pan-and-uao-are-in-use.patch
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