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authorHendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2015-02-09 16:47:00 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2015-02-10 16:39:05 +0100
commit6a039eab53c01a58bfff95c78fc800ca7de27c77 (patch)
tree5b5cc1f503f91db9aaf9b8c1907567e722313e79 /arch/s390/kernel
parents390/hypfs: Eliminate hypfs interval (diff)
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s390/process: free vx save area when releasing tasks
If a task uses vector registers, a save area is allocated to save/restore register states. Free the save area when releasing the task. Found the Memory leak with kmemleak: unreferenced object 0x72885e00 (size 512): comm "vx-test", pid 26123, jiffies 4294945635 (age 256.810s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 db 71 06 41 .............q.A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 24 f7 a9 a7 51 94 79 bb ........$...Q.y. backtrace: [<00000000002d1c8a>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x272/0x3d0 [<00000000001014ac>] alloc_vector_registers+0x54/0x138 [<00000000001017c8>] data_exception+0x158/0x1b0 [<00000000008b551e>] pgm_check_handler+0x13e/0x180 [<00000000800008b6>] 0x800008b6 Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/s390/kernel')
-rw-r--r--arch/s390/kernel/process.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/process.c b/arch/s390/kernel/process.c
index 2c1eb4f3aaf5..13fc0978ca7e 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/process.c
@@ -79,6 +79,14 @@ void release_thread(struct task_struct *dead_task)
{
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
+void arch_release_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+ if (tsk->thread.vxrs)
+ kfree(tsk->thread.vxrs);
+}
+#endif
+
int copy_thread(unsigned long clone_flags, unsigned long new_stackp,
unsigned long arg, struct task_struct *p)
{