netdev - Re: [PATCH] dccp: missing destroy of percpu counter variable while unload module

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Message-ID: <4A793BE8.1060101@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 05 Aug 2009 09:59:36 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Gerrit Renker <gerrit@....abdn.ac.uk>, dccp@...r.kernel.org,
	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dccp: missing destroy of percpu counter variable while
 unload module

Wei Yongjun a écrit :
> percpu counter dccp_orphan_count is init in dccp_init() by
> percpu_counter_init() while dccp module is loaded, but the
> destroy of it is missing while dccp module is unloaded. We
> can get the kernel WARNING about this. Reproduct by the
> following commands:
> 
>   $ modprobe dccp
>   $ rmmod dccp
>   $ modprobe dccp
> 
> WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add+0x27/0x5c()
> Hardware name: VMware Virtual Platform
> list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (c080c0c4), but was (null). (next
> =ca7188cc).
> Modules linked in: dccp(+) nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss exportfs sunrpc
> Pid: 1956, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-rc5 #55
> Call Trace:
>  [<c042f8fa>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x81
>  [<c053a6cb>] ? __list_add+0x27/0x5c
>  [<c042f94f>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x29/0x2c
>  [<c053a6cb>] __list_add+0x27/0x5c
>  [<c053c9b3>] __percpu_counter_init+0x4d/0x5d
>  [<ca9c90c7>] dccp_init+0x19/0x2ed [dccp]
>  [<c0401141>] do_one_initcall+0x4f/0x111
>  [<ca9c90ae>] ? dccp_init+0x0/0x2ed [dccp]
>  [<c06971b5>] ? notifier_call_chain+0x26/0x48
>  [<c0444943>] ? __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x45/0x51
>  [<c04516f7>] sys_init_module+0xac/0x1bd
>  [<c04028e4>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x22
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  net/dccp/proto.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/dccp/proto.c b/net/dccp/proto.c
> index 3281013..1bca920 100644
> --- a/net/dccp/proto.c
> +++ b/net/dccp/proto.c
> @@ -1159,6 +1159,7 @@ static void __exit dccp_fini(void)
>  	kmem_cache_destroy(dccp_hashinfo.bind_bucket_cachep);
>  	dccp_ackvec_exit();
>  	dccp_sysctl_exit();
> +	percpu_counter_destroy(&dccp_orphan_count);
>  }
>  
>  module_init(dccp_init);

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

This was added by commit dd24c001 (net: Use a percpu_counter for orphan_count)
(Tue Nov 25 21:17:14 2008), so this could be a stable candidate (2.6.29 & 2.6.30)


Thanks Wei

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