[patch 17/23] NFSv2/v3: Fix a memory leak when using -onolock

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Feb 22 2008 - 16:52:13 EST


2.6.22-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>


mainline: 5cef338b30c110daf547fb13d99f0c77f2a79fbc

Neil Brown said:
> Hi Trond,
>
> We found that a machine which made moderately heavy use of
> 'automount' was leaking some nfs data structures - particularly the
> 4K allocated by rpc_alloc_iostats.
> It turns out that this only happens with filesystems with -onolock
> set.

> The problem is that if NFS_MOUNT_NONLM is set, nfs_start_lockd doesn't
> set server->destroy, so when the filesystem is unmounted, the
> ->client_acl is not shutdown, and so several resources are still
> held. Multiple mount/umount cycles will slowly eat away memory
> several pages at a time.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>


---
fs/nfs/client.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/client.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/client.c
@@ -433,9 +433,6 @@ static int nfs_create_rpc_client(struct
*/
static void nfs_destroy_server(struct nfs_server *server)
{
- if (!IS_ERR(server->client_acl))
- rpc_shutdown_client(server->client_acl);
-
if (!(server->flags & NFS_MOUNT_NONLM))
lockd_down(); /* release rpc.lockd */
}
@@ -781,6 +778,9 @@ void nfs_free_server(struct nfs_server *

if (server->destroy != NULL)
server->destroy(server);
+
+ if (!IS_ERR(server->client_acl))
+ rpc_shutdown_client(server->client_acl);
if (!IS_ERR(server->client))
rpc_shutdown_client(server->client);


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