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There seems to be memory leak when reading /proc/pid/mem from another process
fiord
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I tried to read memory content of process from another process. However, VmRss of the target process was rapidly increased while reading its memory. Why this is happening?
Please check the following test code I used. This program fork child process and read its memory. the child process do nothing, but VmRss of the child process will be increased while the parent process reading child process's memory.
The test code is the following.
#include <cstdlib> #include <cstdio> #include <unistd.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/ptrace.h> #include <sys/wait.h> #include <err.h> #include <cerrno> #include <cstring> #include <fcntl.h> #include <vector> #include <utility> const int RD_SIZE = 1 * 1024 * 1024; void read_stat(char *path) { int fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); char *buf = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * 128); size_t statm_len = read(fd, buf, 128); int err = errno; if (statm_len == -1) { printf("failed to read statm at %d: %s\n", err, strerror(err)); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } else { printf("%s\n", buf); } free(buf); close(fd); } // 41e53000-41e58000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0 xxxxxx std::vector<std::pair<unsigned long, unsigned long> > read_maps(char *path) { FILE *f = fopen(path, "r"); char *buf = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * 16); int len = 0; int read_phase = 0; unsigned long from; unsigned long to; std::vector<std::pair<unsigned long, unsigned long> > res; while (true) { int v = fgetc(f); if (v == EOF) break; if (read_phase == 0) { if (v == '-') { from = strtol(buf, NULL, 16); len = 0; buf[0] = '\0'; read_phase = 1; } else { buf[len++] = v; buf[len] = '\0'; } } else if (read_phase == 1) { if (v == ' ') { to = strtol(buf, NULL, 16); len = 0; buf[0] = '\0'; read_phase = 2; } else { buf[len++] = v; buf[len] = '\0'; } } else if (read_phase == 2) { if (v == 'r') { unsigned long cur_pos = from; while (cur_pos < to) { unsigned long next_pos = cur_pos + RD_SIZE; if (next_pos > to) next_pos = to; unsigned long length = next_pos - cur_pos; res.push_back(std::make_pair(cur_pos, length)); cur_pos = next_pos; } } else if (v == '-') { // nothing to do } else { printf("something wrong in parse\n"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } read_phase = 3; } else { if (v == '\n') { read_phase = 0; } } } free(buf); fclose(f); return res; } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { pid_t pid; pid = fork(); if (pid == -1) { err(EXIT_FAILURE, "failed to fork"); } else if (pid == 0) { // child process while (true) { sleep(10); } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); } else { sleep(3); // parent printf("parent: child pid is %d\n", pid); // attach to the process int ptrace_res = ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, NULL, NULL); if (ptrace_res < 0) { perror("failed to attach to the child process"); exit(EXIT_FAILURE); } sleep(1); char *buf = NULL; char *path = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * 128); // read from /proc/pid/statm sprintf(path, "/proc/%d/statm", pid); read_stat(path); // read from /proc/pid/maps sprintf(path, "/proc/%d/maps", pid); auto target_list = read_maps(path); // read from /proc/pid/mem sprintf(path, "/proc/%d/mem", pid); int fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); buf = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char) * RD_SIZE); for (auto it : target_list) { unsigned long from, length; from = it.first; length = it.second; // printf("read from %lx, length: %lu\n", from, length); lseek64(fd, from, SEEK_SET); size_t ret = read(fd, buf, RD_SIZE); int err = errno; // skip I/O error if (ret == -1 && err != 5) { printf("failed to read at %d: %s\n", err, strerror(err)); break; } } ptrace(PTRACE_DETACH, pid, NULL, NULL); close(fd); // read from /proc/pid/statm sprintf(path, "/proc/%d/statm", pid); read_stat(path); } exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
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