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authorWeijie Yang <[email protected]>2013-10-16 13:46:54 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2013-10-16 21:35:52 -0700
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mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when re-swapon
zswap_tree is not freed when swapoff, and it got re-kmalloced in swapon, so a memory leak occurs. Free the memory of zswap_tree in zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area(). Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> From: Weijie Yang <[email protected]> Subject: mm/zswap: bugfix: memory leak when invalidate and reclaim occur concurrently Consider the following scenario: thread 0: reclaim entry x (get refcount, but not call zswap_get_swap_cache_page) thread 1: call zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page to invalidate entry x. finished, entry x and its zbud is not freed as its refcount != 0 now, the swap_map[x] = 0 thread 0: now call zswap_get_swap_cache_page swapcache_prepare return -ENOENT because entry x is not used any more zswap_get_swap_cache_page return ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM zswap_writeback_entry do nothing except put refcount Now, the memory of zswap_entry x and its zpage leak. Modify: - check the refcount in fail path, free memory if it is not referenced. - use ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_FAIL instead of ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NOMEM as the fail path can be not only caused by nomem but also by invalidate. [[email protected]: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Weijie Yang <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Bob Liu <[email protected]> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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