[for-next][PATCH 3/4] tracing: Fix leak of per cpu max data in instances

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 22:01:25 EST


From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The freeing of an instance, if max data is configured, there will be
per cpu data structures created. But these are not freed when the instance
is deleted, which causes a memory leak.

A new helper function is added that frees the individual buffers within a
trace array, instead of duplicating the code. This way changes made for one
are applied to the other (normal buffer vs max buffer).

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87k38pbake.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reported-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 2b458c60e0da..384ede311717 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -6242,22 +6242,25 @@ static int allocate_trace_buffers(struct trace_array *tr, int size)
return 0;
}

+static void free_trace_buffer(struct trace_buffer *buf)
+{
+ if (buf->buffer) {
+ ring_buffer_free(buf->buffer);
+ buf->buffer = NULL;
+ free_percpu(buf->data);
+ buf->data = NULL;
+ }
+}
+
static void free_trace_buffers(struct trace_array *tr)
{
if (!tr)
return;

- if (tr->trace_buffer.buffer) {
- ring_buffer_free(tr->trace_buffer.buffer);
- tr->trace_buffer.buffer = NULL;
- free_percpu(tr->trace_buffer.data);
- }
+ free_trace_buffer(&tr->trace_buffer);

#ifdef CONFIG_TRACER_MAX_TRACE
- if (tr->max_buffer.buffer) {
- ring_buffer_free(tr->max_buffer.buffer);
- tr->max_buffer.buffer = NULL;
- }
+ free_trace_buffer(&tr->max_buffer);
#endif
}

--
2.0.0.rc2


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