Re: Fix memory leak in binder--version2

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Oct 16 2012 - 03:10:57 EST


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 05:39:22PM -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 04:55:21PM -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> >> On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 07:20:01AM +0000, Tu, Xiaobing wrote:
> >> >> After enabling kmemleak and run monkey, following memleak is reported:
> >> >> unreferenced object 0xeed27f80 (size 64):
> >> >> comm "Binder_8", pid 641, jiffies 4294946341 (age 2275.810s)
> >> >> hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> >> >> 4f dd 00 00 84 7f d2 ee 84 7f d2 ee 01 00 00 00 O...............
> >> >> 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 aa 4c d7 00 00 00 00 ..........L.....
> >> >> backtrace:
> >> >> [<c184fabc>] kmemleak_alloc+0x3c/0xa0
> >> >> [<c12f391e>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x9e/0x180
> >> >> [<c1668bb5>] binder_thread_write+0xcf5/0x23a0
> >> >> [<c166b091>] binder_ioctl+0x1f1/0x530
> >> >> [<c130dcf6>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x86/0x5e0
> >> >> [<c130e282>] sys_ioctl+0x32/0x60
> >> >> [<c1872e01>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >> >> [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> >> >>
> >> >> The work item in async_todo list is not freed when binder released.
> >> >> Also the async transaction should also be freed in binder_release_work.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Leon Ma <xindong.ma@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Di Zhang <di.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> >> ---
> >> >> drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 6 ++++++
> >> >> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> > Nice fix, but next time can you at least use scripts/get_maintainer.pl
> >> > to figure out who to send this to? I'll queue it up soon, but it took
> >> > akpm to point me at this for me to notice it.
> >>
> >> This patch was just pointer out to me as well. I have a similar fix
> >> queued up at https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/43801/ that
> >> is still being tested. It fixes this leak and a theoretical leak of
> >> death notification objects.
> >
> > Ok, should I hold off applying this patch and wait for your patch
> > instead?
> >
>
> I just sent two patches, but they are not fully tested yet.

Ok, care to test them and after that, resend them with the changes I
noted in the changelog section of the patch?

thanks,

greg k-h
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