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    KVM: x86: Fix memory leak in vmx.c · 27469d29
    Andrew Honig authored
    
    
    If userspace creates and destroys multiple VMs within the same process
    we leak 20k of memory in the userspace process context per VM.  This
    patch frees the memory in kvm_arch_destroy_vm.  If the process exits
    without closing the VM file descriptor or the file descriptor has been
    shared with another process then we don't free the memory.
    
    It's still possible for a user space process to leak memory if the last
    process to close the fd for the VM is not the process that created it.
    However, this is an unexpected case that's only caused by a user space
    process that's misbehaving.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Honig <ahonig@google.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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