From: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
When unloading the rnbd-clt module, it does not free a memory
including the filename of the symbolic link to /sys/block/rnbdX.
It is found by kmemleak as below.
unreferenced object 0xffff9f1a83d3c740 (size 16):
comm "bash", pid 736, jiffies 4295179665 (age 9841.310s)
hex dump (first 16 bytes):
21 64 65 76 21 6e 75 6c 6c 62 30 40 62 6c 61 00 !dev!nullb0@bla.
backtrace:
[<0000000039f0c55e>] 0xffffffffc0456c24
[<000000001aab9513>] kernfs_fop_write+0xcf/0x1c0
[<00000000db5aa4b3>] vfs_write+0xdb/0x1d0
[<000000007a2e2207>] ksys_write+0x65/0xe0
[<00000000055e280a>] do_syscall_64+0x50/0x1b0
[<00000000c2b51831>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
Signed-off-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c b/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c
index 2452eb67547c..885074f2f734 100644
--- a/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/block/rnbd/rnbd-clt-sysfs.c
@@ -432,10 +432,14 @@ void rnbd_clt_remove_dev_symlink(struct rnbd_clt_dev *dev)
* i.e. rnbd_clt_unmap_dev_store() leading to a sysfs warning because
* of sysfs link already was removed already.
*/
- if (dev->blk_symlink_name && try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) {
- sysfs_remove_link(rnbd_devs_kobj, dev->blk_symlink_name);
+ if (dev->blk_symlink_name) {
+ if (try_module_get(THIS_MODULE)) {
+ sysfs_remove_link(rnbd_devs_kobj, dev->blk_symlink_name);
+ module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+ }
+ /* It should be freed always. */
kfree(dev->blk_symlink_name);
- module_put(THIS_MODULE);
+ dev->blk_symlink_name = NULL;
}
}
--
2.25.1
