3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> commit db9108e054700c96322b0f0028546aa4e643cf0b upstream. Hit the kmemleak when executing instance_rmdir, it forgot releasing mem of tracing_cpumask. With this fix, the warn does not appear any more. unreferenced object 0xffff93a8dfaa7c18 (size 8): comm "mkdir", pid 1436, jiffies 4294763622 (age 9134.308s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ........ backtrace: [<ffffffff88b6567a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0 [<ffffffff8861ea41>] __kmalloc_node+0xf1/0x280 [<ffffffff88b505d3>] alloc_cpumask_var_node+0x23/0x30 [<ffffffff88b5060e>] alloc_cpumask_var+0xe/0x10 [<ffffffff88571ab0>] instance_mkdir+0x90/0x240 [<ffffffff886e5100>] tracefs_syscall_mkdir+0x40/0x70 [<ffffffff886565c9>] vfs_mkdir+0x109/0x1b0 [<ffffffff8865b1d0>] SyS_mkdir+0xd0/0x100 [<ffffffff88403857>] do_syscall_64+0x67/0x150 [<ffffffff88b710e7>] return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x6a [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500546969-12594-1-git-send-email-chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx Fixes: ccfe9e42e451 ("tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances") Signed-off-by: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -6405,6 +6405,7 @@ static int instance_delete(const char *n debugfs_remove_recursive(tr->dir); free_trace_buffers(tr); + free_cpumask_var(tr->tracing_cpumask); kfree(tr->name); kfree(tr);