linux-kernel - memory leaks from xfs_rw

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Message-ID: <1562616489.8510.15.camel@lca.pw>
Date:   Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:08:09 -0400
From:   Qian Cai <cai@....pw>
To:     hch@....de
Cc:     darrick.wong@...cle.com, david@...morbit.com,
        linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: memory leaks from xfs_rw_bdev()

Booting today's linux-next starts to have several memory leaks. Looks like the
new xfs_rw_bdev() was introduced in the commit "xfs: use bios directly to read
and write the log recovery buffers".

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10977673/

unreferenced object 0xffff888f595487c0 (size 184):
  comm "mount", pid 1473, jiffies 4294946340 (age 14914.220s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 40 28 67 8f 88 ff ff  .........@(g....
    00 18 00 00 40 c6 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ....@...........
  backtrace:
    [<0000000031fb6250>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x272/0x400
    [<000000008ce62f00>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x2d/0x40
    [<000000004eaa8110>] mempool_alloc+0x10a/0x29e
    [<00000000906127bf>] bio_alloc_bioset+0x150/0x330
    [<000000005d5cc981>] xfs_rw_bdev+0x72/0x300 [xfs]
    [<00000000bbf739cd>] xlog_do_io+0xd8/0x1a0 [xfs]
    [<000000003815ee16>] xlog_bread+0x28/0x70 [xfs]
    [<00000000883dc328>] xlog_find_verify_cycle+0x180/0x2c0 [xfs]
    [<00000000457d45f8>] xlog_find_head+0x27c/0x5a0 [xfs]
    [<000000009956dd1f>] xlog_find_tail+0xdb/0x530 [xfs]
    [<00000000c0cdfde4>] xlog_recover+0x8f/0x2a0 [xfs]
    [<00000000f87803cd>] xfs_log_mount+0x247/0x3b0 [xfs]
    [<00000000e3a05975>] xfs_mountfs+0x7bd/0xe30 [xfs]
    [<00000000128f1a43>] xfs_fs_fill_super+0x6f0/0xaa0 [xfs]
    [<000000000ead1e3b>] mount_bdev+0x1d9/0x220
    [<00000000d48a9588>] xfs_fs_mount+0x15/0x20 [xfs]