Re: [PATCH v2] block: fix ioc leak in put_io_context

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Mar 13 2012 - 11:49:49 EST


On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:28:20AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:21:06PM -0400, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> > diff --git a/block/blk-ioc.c b/block/blk-ioc.c
> > index 8b782a6..9690f27 100644
> > --- a/block/blk-ioc.c
> > +++ b/block/blk-ioc.c
> > @@ -145,6 +145,7 @@ static void ioc_release_fn(struct work_struct *work)
> > void put_io_context(struct io_context *ioc)
> > {
> > unsigned long flags;
> > + bool free_ioc = false;
> >
> > if (ioc == NULL)
> > return;
> > @@ -159,8 +160,13 @@ void put_io_context(struct io_context *ioc)
> > spin_lock_irqsave(&ioc->lock, flags);
> > if (!hlist_empty(&ioc->icq_list))
> > schedule_work(&ioc->release_work);
> > + else
> > + free_ioc = true;

Calling kmem_cache_free() here directly is probably better.

> > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ioc->lock, flags);
> > }
> > +
> > + if (free_ioc)
> > + kmem_cache_free(iocontext_cachep, ioc);
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(put_io_context);
>
> This one looks good to me. Tejun?
>
> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

--
tejun
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/