From 7267fa6819467669f5cc2ba81a615dcc88158b4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:16:21 -0400 Subject: tracing: fix ref count in splice pages The pages allocated for the splice binary buffer did not initialize the ref count correctly. This caused pages not to be freed and causes a drastic memory leak. Thanks to logdev I was able to trace the tracer to find where the leak was. [ Impact: stop memory leak when using splice ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/trace/trace.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c index 1ce5dc6372b8..a884c09006c4 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c @@ -3448,6 +3448,7 @@ tracing_buffers_splice_read(struct file *file, loff_t *ppos, if (!ref) break; + ref->ref = 1; ref->buffer = info->tr->buffer; ref->page = ring_buffer_alloc_read_page(ref->buffer); if (!ref->page) { -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b