Memory/pages are not freed, when unloading nullblk driver. Steps to reproduce issue 1.free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.8Gi 260Mi 7.1Gi 3.0Mi 395Mi 7.3Gi Swap: 0B 0B 0B 2.modprobe null_blk memory_backed=1 3.dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/nullb0 oflag=direct bs=1M count=1000 4.modprobe -r null_blk 5.free -h total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 7.8Gi 1.2Gi 6.1Gi 3.0Mi 398Mi 6.3Gi Swap: 0B 0B 0B Signed-off-by: Anuj Gupta <anuj20.g@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- Added a blktest[1] block/034 to test the same issue. We will raise a PR, if issue is acked and fix is pulled in kernel. [1] https://github.com/nitesh-shetty/blktests/tree/fix/block/mem_leak --- drivers/block/null_blk/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c index b3fedafe301e..864013019d6b 100644 --- a/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c +++ b/drivers/block/null_blk/main.c @@ -2244,6 +2244,7 @@ static void null_destroy_dev(struct nullb *nullb) struct nullb_device *dev = nullb->dev; null_del_dev(nullb); + null_free_device_storage(dev, false); null_free_dev(dev); } base-commit: bc708bbd8260ee4eb3428b0109f5f3be661fae46 -- 2.35.1.500.gb896f729e2