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Steven Rostedt (Google) 17d8017581 ring-buffer: Fix memory leak of free page
Reading the ring buffer does a swap of a sub-buffer within the ring buffer
with a empty sub-buffer. This allows the reader to have full access to the
content of the sub-buffer that was swapped out without having to worry
about contention with the writer.

The readers call ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to allocate a page that
will be used to swap with the ring buffer. When the code is finished with
the reader page, it calls ring_buffer_free_read_page(). Instead of freeing
the page, it stores it as a spare. Then next call to
ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() will return this spare instead of calling
into the memory management system to allocate a new page.

Unfortunately, on freeing of the ring buffer, this spare page is not
freed, and causes a memory leak.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231210221250.7b9cc83c@rorschach.local.home

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Fixes: 73a757e631 ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer")
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2023-12-12 19:00:37 -05:00
arch - Ignore invalid x2APIC entries in order to not waste per-CPU data 2023-11-19 13:46:17 -08:00
block blk-mq: make sure active queue usage is held for bio_integrity_prep() 2023-11-13 08:52:52 -07:00
certs This update includes the following changes: 2023-11-02 16:15:30 -10:00
crypto This push fixes a regression in ahash and hides the Kconfig sub-options for the jitter RNG. 2023-11-09 17:04:58 -08:00
Documentation - Ignore invalid x2APIC entries in order to not waste per-CPU data 2023-11-19 13:46:17 -08:00
drivers - Flush the translation service tables to prevent unpredictable behavior 2023-11-19 13:49:32 -08:00
fs eventfs: Fix events beyond NAME_MAX blocking tasks 2023-12-12 19:00:37 -05:00
include Kbuild fixes for v6.7 2023-11-19 13:54:28 -08:00
init As usual, lots of singleton and doubleton patches all over the tree and 2023-11-02 20:53:31 -10:00
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kernel ring-buffer: Fix memory leak of free page 2023-12-12 19:00:37 -05:00
lib Zstd fixes for v6.7 2023-11-14 23:35:31 -05:00
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security + Features 2023-11-03 09:48:17 -10:00
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virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
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CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
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MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: TRACING: Add Mathieu Desnoyers as Reviewer 2023-11-22 18:37:37 -05:00
Makefile Linux 6.7-rc2 2023-11-19 15:02:14 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.