This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ftrace: Fix memory leak in ftrace_graph_release() to the 4.11-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: ftrace-fix-memory-leak-in-ftrace_graph_release.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f9797c2f20c0160edd718aa467101f3301e57e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 16:20:38 +0100 Subject: ftrace: Fix memory leak in ftrace_graph_release() From: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> commit f9797c2f20c0160edd718aa467101f3301e57e59 upstream. ftrace_hash is being kfree'ed in ftrace_graph_release(), however the ->buckets field is not. This results in a memory leak that is easily captured by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff880038afe000 (size 8192): comm "trace-cmd", pid 238, jiffies 4294916898 (age 9.736s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 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 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff815f561e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0 [<ffffffff8113964d>] __kmalloc+0x12d/0x1a0 [<ffffffff810bf6d1>] alloc_ftrace_hash+0x51/0x80 [<ffffffff810c0523>] __ftrace_graph_open.isra.39.constprop.46+0xa3/0x100 [<ffffffff810c05e8>] ftrace_graph_open+0x68/0xa0 [<ffffffff8114003d>] do_dentry_open.isra.1+0x1bd/0x2d0 [<ffffffff81140df7>] vfs_open+0x47/0x60 [<ffffffff81150f95>] path_openat+0x2a5/0x1020 [<ffffffff81152d6a>] do_filp_open+0x8a/0xf0 [<ffffffff811411df>] do_sys_open+0x12f/0x200 [<ffffffff811412ce>] SyS_open+0x1e/0x20 [<ffffffff815fa6e0>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170525152038.7661-1-lhenriques@xxxxxxxx Fixes: b9b0c831bed2 ("ftrace: Convert graph filter to use hash tables") Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/ftrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c @@ -4859,7 +4859,7 @@ ftrace_graph_release(struct inode *inode } out: - kfree(fgd->new_hash); + free_ftrace_hash(fgd->new_hash); kfree(fgd); return ret; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lhenriques@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.11/ftrace-fix-memory-leak-in-ftrace_graph_release.patch