This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test to the 4.4-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: locktorture-fix-potential-memory-leak-with-rw-lock-test.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f4dbba591945dc301c302672adefba9e2ec08dc5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:06:39 -0800 Subject: locktorture: Fix potential memory leak with rw lock test From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f4dbba591945dc301c302672adefba9e2ec08dc5 upstream. When running locktorture module with the below commands with kmemleak enabled: $ modprobe locktorture torture_type=rw_lock_irq $ rmmod locktorture The below kmemleak got caught: root@10:~# echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak [ 323.197029] kmemleak: 2 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) root@10:~# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak unreferenced object 0xffffffc07592d500 (size 128): comm "modprobe", pid 368, jiffies 4294924118 (age 205.824s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c3 7b 02 00 00 00 00 00 .........{...... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 d7 9b 02 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffff80081e5a88>] create_object+0x110/0x288 [<ffffff80086c6078>] kmemleak_alloc+0x58/0xa0 [<ffffff80081d5acc>] __kmalloc+0x234/0x318 [<ffffff80006fa130>] 0xffffff80006fa130 [<ffffff8008083ae4>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x138 [<ffffff800817e28c>] do_init_module+0x68/0x1cc [<ffffff800811c848>] load_module+0x1a68/0x22e0 [<ffffff800811d340>] SyS_finit_module+0xe0/0xf0 [<ffffff80080836f0>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff unreferenced object 0xffffffc07592d480 (size 128): comm "modprobe", pid 368, jiffies 4294924118 (age 205.824s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3b 6f 01 00 00 00 00 00 ........;o...... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 23 6a 01 00 00 00 00 00 ........#j...... backtrace: [<ffffff80081e5a88>] create_object+0x110/0x288 [<ffffff80086c6078>] kmemleak_alloc+0x58/0xa0 [<ffffff80081d5acc>] __kmalloc+0x234/0x318 [<ffffff80006fa22c>] 0xffffff80006fa22c [<ffffff8008083ae4>] do_one_initcall+0x44/0x138 [<ffffff800817e28c>] do_init_module+0x68/0x1cc [<ffffff800811c848>] load_module+0x1a68/0x22e0 [<ffffff800811d340>] SyS_finit_module+0xe0/0xf0 [<ffffff80080836f0>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff It is because cxt.lwsa and cxt.lrsa don't get freed in module_exit, so free them in lock_torture_cleanup() and free writer_tasks if reader_tasks is failed at memory allocation. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: 石洋 <yang.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) --- a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c +++ b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c @@ -776,6 +776,8 @@ static void lock_torture_cleanup(void) else lock_torture_print_module_parms(cxt.cur_ops, "End of test: SUCCESS"); + kfree(cxt.lwsa); + kfree(cxt.lrsa); torture_cleanup_end(); } @@ -917,6 +919,8 @@ static int __init lock_torture_init(void GFP_KERNEL); if (reader_tasks == NULL) { VERBOSE_TOROUT_ERRSTRING("reader_tasks: Out of memory"); + kfree(writer_tasks); + writer_tasks = NULL; firsterr = -ENOMEM; goto unwind; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/locktorture-fix-potential-memory-leak-with-rw-lock-test.patch