[dm-devel] Bisected: Massive memory leak in dm-snapshot in 3.1 development introduced

[Michael Leun]

On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:44:49 +0100
Alasdair G Kergon <agk at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:52:06PM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Mikulas, Alasdair? I see the mempool_free() for the "master job",
> > what about everything else? Does the dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback()
> > perhaps need to do a
> > 
> >     job->master_job = job;
> > 
> > or similar?
> 
> If you look at the other place that performs that mempool_alloc, it's
> indeed present there.
> 
> Michael - can you test if this solves the problem?
> 
> Alasdair
> 
> --- a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
> +++ b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
> @@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ void *dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback(struct
> dm_kcopyd_client *kc, job->kc = kc;
>  	job->fn = fn;
>  	job->context = context;
> +	job->master_job = job;
>  
>  	atomic_inc(&kc->nr_jobs);
>  
> 

Yup, it indeed does.

-- 
MfG,

Michael Leun