Commit 7267fa68 authored by Steven Rostedt's avatar Steven Rostedt Committed by Ingo Molnar

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: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 09106974
......@@ -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) {
......
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