[bug #30096] ext2fs leaks memory on multiple execs from same process

[Carl Fredrik Hammar]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?30096>

                 Summary: ext2fs leaks memory on multiple execs from same
process
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: hammy
            Submitted on: Wed 09 Jun 2010 04:15:13 PM CEST
                Category: Hurd
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
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                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
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             Open/Closed: Open
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Details:

If you run a program which does nothing else than call exec() on its own
executable then ext2fs and gnumach slowly uses more and more memory.
At this point, gnumach grows quicker than ext2fs.  If only run for a
short while killing the execing process only results in some of this
memory being freed.  But if you let the process do 100 000 execs or so
before you kill it, then ext2fs memory usage explodes to 100's of megs,
and after that, consumes ~200 kb whenever setauth() is called or a setuid
binary is executed.

I have attached a program that execs itself and prints out how many
calls it has done every 100th call.  A convenient way to track memory
usage of gnumach and ext2fs, respectively, is:

while ps -u 2 3; do sleep 1; done





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Date: Wed 09 Jun 2010 04:15:13 PM CEST  Name: exec-spam.c  Size: 430B   By:
hammy

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=20710>

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