From: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
To: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>, markus.linnala@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] z3fold: fix memory leak in kmem cache
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 09:31:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d6214fbd-e757-43a9-ab12-4b61fde434db@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190917185352.44cf285d3ebd9e64548de5de@gmail.com>
On 9/17/19 5:53 PM, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> Currently there is a leak in init_z3fold_page() -- it allocates
> handles from kmem cache even for headless pages, but then they are
> never used and never freed, so eventually kmem cache may get
> exhausted. This patch provides a fix for that.
>
> Reported-by: Markus Linnala <markus.linnala@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Can a Fixes: commit be pinpointed, and CC stable added?
> ---
> mm/z3fold.c | 15 +++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/z3fold.c b/mm/z3fold.c
> index 6397725b5ec6..7dffef2599c3 100644
> --- a/mm/z3fold.c
> +++ b/mm/z3fold.c
> @@ -301,14 +301,11 @@ static void z3fold_unregister_migration(struct z3fold_pool *pool)
> }
>
> /* Initializes the z3fold header of a newly allocated z3fold page */
> -static struct z3fold_header *init_z3fold_page(struct page *page,
> +static struct z3fold_header *init_z3fold_page(struct page *page, bool headless,
> struct z3fold_pool *pool, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> struct z3fold_header *zhdr = page_address(page);
> - struct z3fold_buddy_slots *slots = alloc_slots(pool, gfp);
> -
> - if (!slots)
> - return NULL;
> + struct z3fold_buddy_slots *slots;
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page->lru);
> clear_bit(PAGE_HEADLESS, &page->private);
> @@ -316,6 +313,12 @@ static struct z3fold_header *init_z3fold_page(struct page *page,
> clear_bit(NEEDS_COMPACTING, &page->private);
> clear_bit(PAGE_STALE, &page->private);
> clear_bit(PAGE_CLAIMED, &page->private);
> + if (headless)
> + return zhdr;
> +
> + slots = alloc_slots(pool, gfp);
> + if (!slots)
> + return NULL;
>
> spin_lock_init(&zhdr->page_lock);
> kref_init(&zhdr->refcount);
> @@ -962,7 +965,7 @@ static int z3fold_alloc(struct z3fold_pool *pool, size_t size, gfp_t gfp,
> if (!page)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - zhdr = init_z3fold_page(page, pool, gfp);
> + zhdr = init_z3fold_page(page, bud == HEADLESS, pool, gfp);
> if (!zhdr) {
> __free_page(page);
> return -ENOMEM;
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-18 7:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-17 15:53 Vitaly Wool
2019-09-18 7:31 ` Vlastimil Babka [this message]
2019-09-19 6:47 ` Markus Linnala
2019-09-19 7:59 ` Vitaly Wool
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