Memory leak via nfs_readdir_make_qstr

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Wed Nov 10 2010 - 13:12:29 EST


Hi,

I tested the 2.6.37-rc1 on an ARM platform with nfsroot filesystem.
Kmemleak reports quite a lot (> 150) of leaks like below. You seem to
have made changes recently to this area.

unreferenced object 0xef3aa600 (size 32):
comm "modprobe", pid 480, jiffies 4294938128 (age 1250.660s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
2e 2e 3a ef 00 01 10 00 00 02 20 00 60 f3 93 ef ..:....... .`...
e0 be 82 ef e0 01 00 00 a1 85 48 39 1d 08 44 bb ..........H9..D.
backtrace:
[<c00a3351>] create_object+0xbd/0x1bc
[<c0272c11>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x40
[<c00a1d05>] __kmalloc_track_caller+0x81/0xc4
[<c008a491>] kmemdup+0x11/0x20
[<c01053db>] nfs_readdir_page_filler+0xef/0x360
[<c0105843>] nfs_readdir_xdr_to_array+0x1f7/0x2e4
[<c0105941>] nfs_readdir_filler+0x11/0x58
[<c007c397>] do_read_cache_page+0x47/0xd8
[<c007c459>] read_cache_page_async+0x15/0x18
[<c007c463>] read_cache_page+0x7/0xc
[<c0105a5d>] nfs_readdir+0xd5/0x398
[<c00af433>] vfs_readdir+0x5f/0x74
[<c00af50d>] sys_getdents+0x49/0x74
[<c0036401>] ret_fast_syscall+0x1/0x44

Any quick thoughts? I'll have a look tomorrow as well.

Thanks,

Catalin

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