[vbox-dev] Memory leak in VBox 4.1.0 r73009
Larry Finger
Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat Aug 13 18:39:52 PDT 2011
Kmemleak shows the following leak in the VB kernel module for version 4.1.0
r73009 (x86_64):
unreferenced object 0xffff88006baf1d00 (size 128):
comm "VirtualBox", pid 549, jiffies 4314134921 (age 30845.876s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
19 01 09 18 00 00 00 80 58 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 ........X...X...
03 01 92 18 0f 32 9c 65 2e 2e 00 00 ad 4e ad de .....2.e.....N..
backtrace:
[<ffffffff81122d77>] create_object+0x127/0x2b0
[<ffffffff813580b1>] kmemleak_alloc+0x21/0x50
[<ffffffff8111cd33>] __kmalloc+0x113/0x1c0
[<ffffffffa04c21ca>] rtR0MemAllocEx+0x5a/0x160 [vboxdrv]
[<ffffffffa04bff03>] VBoxHost_RTMemAllocTag+0x13/0x30 [vboxdrv]
[<ffffffffa04c4cfb>] VBoxHost_RTSemFastMutexCreate+0x1b/0x90 [vboxdrv]
[<ffffffffa04d7ff4>] g_abExecMemory+0x28f4/0x180000 [vboxdrv]
[<ffffffffa04eaef9>] g_abExecMemory+0x157f9/0x180000 [vboxdrv]
[<ffffffffa04bd619>] supdrvIOCtl+0x11b9/0x2820 [vboxdrv]
[<ffffffffa04b8435>] VBoxDrvLinuxIOCtl+0x135/0x200 [vboxdrv]
[<ffffffff81137de6>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x96/0x550
[<ffffffff811382ea>] sys_ioctl+0x4a/0x80
[<ffffffff8136befb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
I have not yet tried to find the source of the leak.
Larry
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