From d19af0a76444fde629667ecb823c0ee28f9f67d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jiri Slaby Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 11:36:28 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] kcm: fix /proc memory leak Every open of /proc/net/kcm leaks 16 bytes of memory as is reported by kmemleak: unreferenced object 0xffff88059c0e3458 (size 192): comm "cat", pid 1401, jiffies 4294935742 (age 310.720s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 28 45 71 96 05 88 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 (Eq............. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x16e/0x230 [] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0 [] kcm_seq_open+0x0/0x30 [kcm] [] seq_open+0x79/0x1d0 [] __seq_open_private+0x2f/0xa0 [] seq_open_net+0x38/0xa0 ... It is caused by a missing free in the ->release path. So fix it by providing seq_release_net as the ->release method. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Fixes: cd6e111bf5 (kcm: Add statistics and proc interfaces) Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Tom Herbert Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/kcm/kcmproc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/kcm/kcmproc.c b/net/kcm/kcmproc.c index 738008726cc6..fda7f4715c58 100644 --- a/net/kcm/kcmproc.c +++ b/net/kcm/kcmproc.c @@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ static const struct file_operations kcm_seq_fops = { .open = kcm_seq_open, .read = seq_read, .llseek = seq_lseek, + .release = seq_release_net, }; static struct kcm_seq_muxinfo kcm_seq_muxinfo = { -- 2.20.1