This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ramfs: fix memleak on no-mmu arch
to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ramfs-fix-memleak-on-no-mmu-arch.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b836aec53e2bce71de1d5415313380688c851477 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Liu <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:22:20 -0700
Subject: ramfs: fix memleak on no-mmu arch
From: Bob Liu <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
+++ b/fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ int ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping(struc
SetPageDirty(page);
unlock_page(page);
+ put_page(page);
}
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.38/ramfs-fix-memleak-on-no-mmu-arch.patch
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