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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 <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Steven Rostedt 16 năm trước cách đây
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      kernel/trace/trace.c

+ 1 - 0
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) {