On Tue, Oct 16 2007, Kristof Provost wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing a serious memory leak whenever I use my /home partition.
> It's an encrypted partition using dm-crypt. Simply running
> 'stress -d 5' is enough to exhaust the memory in a few minutes.
>
> When I stop 'stress' the memory isn't returned.
> This doesn't seem to happen when I run stress on a normal (no dm and
> no encryption) partition.
>
> Here's the output of 'free -m' before and after 'stress -d 1 -t 5'
> Before:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 751 584 167 0 14 235
> -/+ buffers/cache: 334 416
> Swap: 980 0 980
>
> After:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 751 619 131 0 12 169
> -/+ buffers/cache: 437 313
> Swap: 980 0 980
>
> That's 100Mb of RAM gone in 5 seconds.
>
> I'm using a standard x86 centrino laptop.
> The log files don't reveal anything suspicious.
>
> git bisect tells me it started in one of these commits:
> d24517d793f21edab1a411da95f2c45cb88a84aa,
> 5bb23a688b2de23d7765a1dd439d89c038378978 and
> 9cc54d40b8ca01fcefc9151044b6996565061d90.
>
> The bug is still present in the last version of Linus' tree
> (65a6ec0d72a07f16719e9b7a96e1c4bae044b591)
>
> Let me know if I can provide more information.
Please try with this patch from Neil.
diff .prev/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c ./drivers/md/dm-crypt.c
--- .prev/drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2007-10-15 17:18:20.000000000 +1000
+++ ./drivers/md/dm-crypt.c 2007-10-15 17:21:43.000000000 +1000
@@ -444,32 +444,12 @@ static struct bio *crypt_alloc_buffer(st
}
static void crypt_free_buffer_pages(struct crypt_config *cc,
- struct bio *clone, unsigned int bytes)
+ struct bio *clone)
{
- unsigned int i, start, end;
+ unsigned int i;
struct bio_vec *bv;
- /*
- * This is ugly, but Jens Axboe thinks that using bi_idx in the
- * endio function is too dangerous at the moment, so I calculate the
- * correct position using bi_vcnt and bi_size.
- * The bv_offset and bv_len fields might already be modified but we
- * know that we always allocated whole pages.
- * A fix to the bi_idx issue in the kernel is in the works, so
- * we will hopefully be able to revert to the cleaner solution soon.
- */
- i = clone->bi_vcnt - 1;
- bv = bio_iovec_idx(clone, i);
- end = (i << PAGE_SHIFT) + (bv->bv_offset + bv->bv_len) - clone->bi_size;
- start = end - bytes;
-
- start >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
- if (!clone->bi_size)
- end = clone->bi_vcnt;
- else
- end >>= PAGE_SHIFT;
-
- for (i = start; i < end; i++) {
+ for (i = 0; i < clone->bi_vcnt; i++) {
bv = bio_iovec_idx(clone, i);
BUG_ON(!bv->bv_page);
mempool_free(bv->bv_page, cc->page_pool);
@@ -539,7 +519,7 @@ static void crypt_endio(struct bio *clon
* free the processed pages
*/
if (!read_io) {
- crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone, clone->bi_size);
+ crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone);
goto out;
}
@@ -628,7 +608,7 @@ static void process_write(struct dm_cryp
ctx.idx_out = 0;
if (unlikely(crypt_convert(cc, &ctx) < 0)) {
- crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone, clone->bi_size);
+ crypt_free_buffer_pages(cc, clone);
bio_put(clone);
crypt_dec_pending(io, -EIO);
return;
--
Jens Axboe
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