linux/ipc
Serge E. Hallyn 7d6feeb287 ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr)
We have apparently had a memory leak since
7ca7e564e0 "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>
2009-12-16 07:20:09 -08:00
..
compat_mq.c
compat.c
ipc_sysctl.c sysctl ipc: Remove dead binary sysctl support code. 2009-11-12 02:04:54 -08:00
ipcns_notifier.c
Makefile
mq_sysctl.c sysctl ipc: Remove dead binary sysctl support code. 2009-11-12 02:04:54 -08:00
mqueue.c const: mark remaining super_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
msg.c ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr) 2009-12-16 07:20:09 -08:00
msgutil.c
namespace.c ipcns: make free_ipc_ns() static 2009-06-18 13:03:56 -07:00
sem.c ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr) 2009-12-16 07:20:09 -08:00
shm.c ipc ns: fix memory leak (idr) 2009-12-16 07:20:09 -08:00
util.c seq_file: constify seq_operations 2009-09-23 07:39:29 -07:00
util.h ipc: unbreak 32-bit shmctl/semctl/msgctl 2009-06-21 12:48:43 -07:00