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Bug 1730281

Summary: podman leaks kernel memory due to return code stored in tmpfs
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Michele Baldessari <michele>
Component: podmanAssignee: Matthew Heon <mheon>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: atomic-bugs <atomic-bugs>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 8.0CC: bdobreli, dornelas, dwalsh, jligon, jnovy, lsm5, mheon, mjenner, wchadwic, ypu
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release: 8.1   
Hardware: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: podman-1.4.2-2 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 21:02:47 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1186913, 1727325, 1734574    

Description Michele Baldessari 2019-07-16 11:46:01 UTC
Description of problem:

This BZ is a spinoff from https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1699202 . The investigation in the original kernel leak bug has shown that another leak occurred during the creation/destruction cycle of podman containers.

The upstream review meant to fix this leak is here: 
https://github.com/containers/libpod/pull/3551

The aim of this BZ is to A) track the fix in podman and B) separate this issue from the other analysis going on in rhbz#1699202

Comment 5 Joy Pu 2019-09-29 07:00:30 UTC
Can reproduce this with podman-1.1.0-1.git006206a.module+el8+2851+dbc75b3b.x86_64. Test with podman-1.4.2-5.module+el8.1.0+4240+893c1ab8.x86_64, the exist file is already not show up in the tmpfs /run/libpod/exist. Details:
# podman run --name test -d busybox
d3708281a63cb8437091a25d5f207a36d52266822467362e9d7afbd60730e8c3
# ls /run/libpod/exits/

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:02:47 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3403