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Andrea Arcangeli cc798c8389 kernfs: fix memleak in kernel_ops_readdir()
If getdents64 is killed or hits on segfault, it'll leave cgroups
directories in sysfs pinned leaking memory because the kernfs node
won't be freed on rmdir and the parent neither.

Repro:

  # for i in `seq 1000`; do mkdir $i; done
  # rmdir *
  # for i in `seq 1000`; do mkdir $i; done
  # rmdir *

  # for i in `seq 1000`; do while :; do ls $i/ >/dev/null; done & done
  # while :; do killall ls; done

  kernfs_node_cache in /proc/slabinfo keeps going up as expected.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # goes way back to original sysfs days
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190805173404.GF136335@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-08-05 20:34:11 +02:00
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