Hi Paul,

Thank you for coming back to us. I will ask my colleagues that work with
the AWS kernels to look at this.

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Title:
  memory leak on AWS kernels when using docker

Status in linux-aws package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in linux-aws source package in Focal:
  New

Bug description:
  Ever since the "ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-20200729" EC2 Ubuntu
  AMI was released which has the "5.3.0-1032-aws" kernel we have been
  hitting a 100% repro memory leak that causes our app that is running
  under docker to be OOM killed.

  The scenario is that we have an app running in a docker container and
  it occasionally catches a crash happening within itself and when that
  happens it creates another process which triggers a gdb dump of that
  parent app. Normally this works fine but under these specific kernels
  it causes the memory usage to grow and grow until it hits the maximum
  allowed memory for the container at which point the container is
  killed.

  I have tested using several of the latest available Ubuntu AMIs
  including the latest "ubuntu-bionic-18.04-amd64-server-20210415" which
  has the "5.4.0-1045-aws" kernel and the bug still exists.

  I also tested a bunch of the mainline kernels and found the fix was
  introduced for this memory leak in the v5.9-rc4 kernel
  (https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.9-rc4/CHANGES).

  Do you all have any idea if or when that set of changes will be
  backported into a supported kernel for Ubuntu 18.04 or 20.04?

  Release we are running:
  root@<redacted>:~# lsb_release -rd
  Description:  Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
  Release:      18.04

  Docker / containerd.io versions:
  - containerd.io: 1.4.4-1
  - docker-ce: 5:20.10.5~3-0~ubuntu-bionic

  Latest supported kernel I tried which still sees the memory leak:
  root@hostname:~# apt-cache policy linux-aws
  linux-aws:
    Installed: 5.4.0.1045.27
    Candidate: 5.4.0.1045.27
    Version table:
   *** 5.4.0.1045.27 500
          500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu 
bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security/main amd64 
Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       4.15.0.1007.7 500
          500 http://us-east-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 
Packages

  Thanks,
  Paul

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