[34-longterm 062/196] ramfs: fix memleak on no-mmu arch

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Mon Mar 12 2012 - 21:01:48 EST


From: Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit b836aec53e2bce71de1d5415313380688c851477 upstream.

On no-mmu arch, there is a memleak during shmem test. The cause of this
memleak is ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping() added page refcount to 2
which makes iput() can't free that pages.

The simple test file is like this:

int main(void)
{
int i;
key_t k = ftok("/etc", 42);

for ( i=0; i<100; ++i) {
int id = shmget(k, 10000, 0644|IPC_CREAT);
if (id == -1) {
printf("shmget error\n");
}
if(shmctl(id, IPC_RMID, NULL ) == -1) {
printf("shm rm error\n");
return -1;
}
}
printf("run ok...\n");
return 0;
}

And the result:

root:/> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 60320 17912 42408 0 0
-/+ buffers: 17912 42408
root:/> shmem
run ok...
root:/> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 60320 19096 41224 0 0
-/+ buffers: 19096 41224
root:/> shmem
run ok...
root:/> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 60320 20296 40024 0 0
-/+ buffers: 20296 40024
...

After this patch the test result is:(no memleak anymore)

root:/> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 60320 16668 43652 0 0
-/+ buffers: 16668 43652
root:/> shmem
run ok...
root:/> free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 60320 16668 43652 0 0
-/+ buffers: 16668 43652

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
index 5ea4ad8..e9f6f9b 100644
--- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struct inode *inode, size_t newsize)
SetPageDirty(page);

unlock_page(page);
+ put_page(page);
}

return 0;
--
1.7.9.3

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