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ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr)
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We have apparently had a memory leak since
7ca7e56 "ipc: store ipcs into IDRs" in
2007.  The idr of which 3 exist for each ipc namespace is never freed.

This patch simply frees them when the ipcns is freed.  I don't believe any
idr_remove() are done from rcu (and could therefore be delayed until after
this idr_destroy()), so the patch should be safe.  Some quick testing
showed no harm, and the memory leak fixed.

Caught by kmemleak.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Serge E. Hallyn authored and torvalds committed Dec 16, 2009
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions ipc/msg.c
Expand Up @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ void msg_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
void msg_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
free_ipcs(ns, &msg_ids(ns), freeque);
idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_MSG_IDS].ipcs_idr);
}
#endif

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions ipc/sem.c
Expand Up @@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ void sem_init_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
void sem_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
free_ipcs(ns, &sem_ids(ns), freeary);
idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_SEM_IDS].ipcs_idr);
}
#endif

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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions ipc/shm.c
Expand Up @@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ static void do_shm_rmid(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct kern_ipc_perm *ipcp)
void shm_exit_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns)
{
free_ipcs(ns, &shm_ids(ns), do_shm_rmid);
idr_destroy(&ns->ids[IPC_SHM_IDS].ipcs_idr);
}
#endif

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