On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 11:23:25AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 12:08:15PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > These patches fix a memory leak in per-cpu areas in v4.9.y
> >
> > The following command sequence
> >
> > while :; do
> > c=$(docker create busybox)
> > docker start $c
> > docker stop $c
> > docker rm $c
> > done
> >
> > causes the number of pcpu_get_vm_area entries in /proc/vmallocinfo to grow.
> >
> > The commit d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during
> > unregistering") fixes the issue and the commits ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl:
> > Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.") and 2fd1d2c4ceb2 ("proc: Fix
> > proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference") are the follow-up fixups.
> >
> > I've also checked v4.4 and the issue does not appear there.
> >
> > Eric W. Biederman (2):
> > proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.
> > proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference
> >
> > Konstantin Khlebnikov (1):
> > proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering
>
> What is the git commit ids of these patches that are in Linus's tree? I
> need those to be able to apply this.
d6cffbbe9a7e ("proc/sysctl: prune stale dentries during unregistering")
ace0c791e6c3 ("proc/sysctl: Don't grab i_lock under sysctl_lock.")
2fd1d2c4ceb2 ("proc: Fix proc_sys_prune_dcache to hold a sb reference")
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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Sincerely yours,
Mike.
