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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>2007-10-18 23:40:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-10-19 11:53:40 -0700
commitc9c5d92211883e9ae22394d1f157ab0d3a7ec895 (patch)
treebd90ede8e80a59bcb2dfedbc3248e5091736526c /kernel/pid.c
parent6f4e643353aea52d80f33960bd88954a7c074f0f (diff)
pid namespaces: create a slab-cache for 'struct pid_namespace'
This will help fixing memory leaks due to bad reference counting. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/pid.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/pid.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c
index f76097c6047..d88b83eb703 100644
--- a/kernel/pid.c
+++ b/kernel/pid.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
static struct hlist_head *pid_hash;
static int pidhash_shift;
struct pid init_struct_pid = INIT_STRUCT_PID;
+static struct kmem_cache *pid_ns_cachep;
int pid_max = PID_MAX_DEFAULT;
@@ -486,7 +487,7 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
struct pid_namespace *ns;
int i;
- ns = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pid_namespace), GFP_KERNEL);
+ ns = kmem_cache_alloc(pid_ns_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ns == NULL)
goto out;
@@ -516,7 +517,7 @@ static struct pid_namespace *create_pid_namespace(int level)
out_free_map:
kfree(ns->pidmap[0].page);
out_free:
- kfree(ns);
+ kmem_cache_free(pid_ns_cachep, ns);
out:
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
@@ -527,7 +528,7 @@ static void destroy_pid_namespace(struct pid_namespace *ns)
for (i = 0; i < PIDMAP_ENTRIES; i++)
kfree(ns->pidmap[i].page);
- kfree(ns);
+ kmem_cache_free(pid_ns_cachep, ns);
}
struct pid_namespace *copy_pid_ns(unsigned long flags, struct pid_namespace *old_ns)
@@ -601,4 +602,6 @@ void __init pidmap_init(void)
init_pid_ns.pid_cachep = create_pid_cachep(1);
if (init_pid_ns.pid_cachep == NULL)
panic("Can't create pid_1 cachep\n");
+
+ pid_ns_cachep = KMEM_CACHE(pid_namespace, SLAB_PANIC);
}