linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] xen-blkback: fix memory leaks

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Date:	Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:42:30 +0100
From:	"Egger, Christoph" <chegger@...zon.de>
To:	Matthew Rushton <mrushton7@...oo.com>,
	Roger Pau Monne ‎‎ 
	<roger.pau@...rix.com>
CC:	Ian Campbell ‎ <Ian.Campbell@...rix.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"mrushton@...zon.com" <mrushton@...zon.com>,
	David Vrabel ‎‎‎ 
	<david.vrabel@...rix.com>, "msw@...zon.com" <msw@...zon.com>,
	"xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>,
	Boris Ostrovsky ‎ 
	<boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
	"aliguori@...zon.com" <aliguori@...zon.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 2/4] xen-blkback: fix memory leaks

On 07.02.14 04:15, Matthew Rushton wrote:
> On 04/02/14 10:26, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>> I've at least identified two possible memory leaks in blkback, both
>> related to the shutdown path of a VBD:
>> 
>> - blkback doesn't wait for any pending purge work to finish before
>>   cleaning the list of free_pages. The purge work will call
>>   put_free_pages and thus we might end up with pages being added to
>>   the free_pages list after we have emptied it. Fix this by making
>>   sure there's no pending purge work before exiting
>>   xen_blkif_schedule, and moving the free_page cleanup code to
>>   xen_blkif_free.
>> - blkback doesn't wait for pending requests to end before cleaning
>>   persistent grants and the list of free_pages. Again this can add
>>   pages to the free_pages list or persistent grants to the
>>   persistent_gnts red-black tree. Fixed by moving the persistent
>>   grants and free_pages cleanup code to xen_blkif_free.
>> 
>> Also, add some checks in xen_blkif_free to make sure we are cleaning
>> everything.
> 
> Tested-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@...zon.com>
> Reviewed-by: Matt Rushton <mrushton@...zon.com>

Tested-by: Christoph Egger <chegger@...zon.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Egger <chegger@...zon.de>

Christoph

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