Re: possible leak in kernel 2.6.10-ac12

[Noel Maddy]

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:02:33AM +0000, Pedro Venda wrote:

> admin proc # cat slabinfo
...
> biovec-1           74224  74354     16  226    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata    329    329      0
> bio                74212  74237     64   61    1 : tunables  120   60    0 : slabdata   1217   1217      0

If you're using md, you need this patch to fix a bio leak:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/diffs/drivers/md/md.c@xxxxx


Index: ac-dev/drivers/md/md.c
===================================================================
--- ac-dev.orig/drivers/md/md.c	2005-02-07 17:50:37.000000000 -0500
+++ ac-dev/drivers/md/md.c	2005-02-08 17:49:57.000000000 -0500
@@ -336,8 +336,6 @@
 	struct completion event;
 	int ret;
 
-	bio_get(bio);
-
 	rw |= (1 << BIO_RW_SYNC);
 
 	bio->bi_bdev = bdev;
-- 
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