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Commit ebb3f994 authored by SeongJae Park's avatar SeongJae Park Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/damon/dbgfs: fix 'struct pid' leaks in 'dbgfs_target_ids_write()'

DAMON debugfs interface increases the reference counts of 'struct pid's
for targets from the 'target_ids' file write callback
('dbgfs_target_ids_write()'), but decreases the counts only in DAMON
monitoring termination callback ('dbgfs_before_terminate()').

Therefore, when 'target_ids' file is repeatedly written without DAMON
monitoring start/termination, the reference count is not decreased and
therefore memory for the 'struct pid' cannot be freed.  This commit
fixes this issue by decreasing the reference counts when 'target_ids' is
written.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211229124029.23348-1-sj@kernel.org
Fixes: 4bc05954

 ("mm/damon: implement a debugfs-based user space interface")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[5.15+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f5c73297
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