From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 0e18dd12064e07519f7cbff4149ca7fff620cbed ] perf with --namespace key leaks various memory objects including namespaces 4.14.0+ pid_namespace 1 12 2568 12 8 user_namespace 1 39 824 39 8 net_namespace 1 5 6272 5 8 This happen because perf_fill_ns_link_info() struct patch ns_path: during initialization ns_path incremented counters on related mnt and dentry, but without lost path_put nobody decremented them back. Leaked dentry is name of related namespace, and its leak does not allow to free unused namespace. Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hari Bathini <hbathini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: commit e422267322cd ("perf: Add PERF_RECORD_NAMESPACES to include namespaces related info") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c510711b-3904-e5e1-d296-61273d21118d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/events/core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c index 24ebad5567b4..8c20af8738ac 100644 --- a/kernel/events/core.c +++ b/kernel/events/core.c @@ -6756,6 +6756,7 @@ static void perf_fill_ns_link_info(struct perf_ns_link_info *ns_link_info, ns_inode = ns_path.dentry->d_inode; ns_link_info->dev = new_encode_dev(ns_inode->i_sb->s_dev); ns_link_info->ino = ns_inode->i_ino; + path_put(&ns_path); } } -- 2.11.0