Using request-based DM mpath configured with the following stacking (.request_fn DM mpath ontop of scsi-mq paths): echo Y > /sys/module/scsi_mod/parameters/use_blk_mq echo N > /sys/module/dm_mod/parameters/use_blk_mq 'struct dm_rq_target_io' would leak if a request is requeued before a blk-mq clone is allocated (or fails to allocate). free_rq_tio() wasn't being called. kmemleak reported: unreferenced object 0xffff8800b90b98c0 (size 112): comm "kworker/7:1H", pid 5692, jiffies 4295056109 (age 78.589s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 d0 5c 2c 03 88 ff ff 40 00 bf 01 00 c9 ff ff ..\,....@....... e0 d9 b1 34 00 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ...4............ backtrace: [<ffffffff81672b6e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0 [<ffffffff811dbb63>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xc3/0x1e0 [<ffffffff8117eae5>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x15/0x20 [<ffffffff8117ec1e>] mempool_alloc+0x6e/0x170 [<ffffffffa00029ac>] dm_old_prep_fn+0x3c/0x180 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff812fbd78>] blk_peek_request+0x168/0x290 [<ffffffffa0003e62>] dm_request_fn+0xb2/0x1b0 [dm_mod] [<ffffffff812f66e3>] __blk_run_queue+0x33/0x40 [<ffffffff812f9585>] blk_delay_work+0x25/0x40 [<ffffffff81096fff>] process_one_work+0x14f/0x3d0 [<ffffffff81097715>] worker_thread+0x125/0x4b0 [<ffffffff8109ce88>] kthread+0xd8/0xf0 [<ffffffff8167cb8f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff crash> struct -o dm_rq_target_io struct dm_rq_target_io { ... } SIZE: 112 Fixes: e5863d9ad7 ("dm: allocate requests in target when stacking on blk-mq devices") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 4.0+ Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm.c b/drivers/md/dm.c index 5df4048..dd83492 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm.c @@ -1191,6 +1191,8 @@ static void dm_unprep_request(struct request *rq) if (clone) free_rq_clone(clone); + else if (!tio->md->queue->mq_ops) + free_rq_tio(tio); } /* -- 2.5.4 (Apple Git-61) -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel