From nobody Sat Feb 7 16:16:36 2026 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 303681171E; Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 05736C43397; Sat, 16 Dec 2023 04:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rostedt by gandalf with local (Exim 4.97) (envelope-from ) id 1rEMCJ-00000002yCF-03UD; Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:22:43 -0500 Message-ID: <20231216042242.803616937@goodmis.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.67 Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 23:22:18 -0500 From: Steven Rostedt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , Mark Rutland , Mathieu Desnoyers , Andrew Morton , stable@vger.kernel.org Subject: [for-linus][PATCH 04/15] ring-buffer: Fix memory leak of free page References: <20231216042214.905262999@goodmis.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" 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@ro= rschach.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing r= ing buffer") Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index b8986f82eccf..dcd47895b424 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1787,6 +1787,8 @@ static void rb_free_cpu_buffer(struct ring_buffer_per= _cpu *cpu_buffer) free_buffer_page(bpage); } =20 + free_page((unsigned long)cpu_buffer->free_page); + kfree(cpu_buffer); } =20 --=20 2.42.0