Re: Leak in nlmsvc_testlock for async GETFL case

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 09:57:35PM -0500, Oleg Drokin wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 2:08 PM, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 01:46:04PM -0500, Oleg Drokin wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>>   Per our discussion, I am resending this patch that fixes a leak in
>>>   nlmsvc_testlock.  It is addition to another leak fixing patch you
>>>   already have.  Without the patch, there is a leakage of nlmblock
>>>   structure refcount that holds a reference nlmfile structure, that
>>>   holds a reference to struct file, when async GETFL is used
>>>   (-EINPROGRESS return from file_ops->lock()), and also in some error
>>>   cases
>> Thanks for the fix!  Looks right to me.  Yes, somehow I missed this  
>> one
>> when you sent it privately.  Applied and pushed out to
>> 	git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux.git nfs-server-stable
>> and I'll submit it for 2.6.25.
>
> After playing around that code a bit more, I figured out the leak was  
> not
> completely fixed by that first patch, the case where there is  
> conflicting
> lock passed in by callback still leaks block reference.
> This simple incremental fix (against your current tree) takes care of  
> that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Drokin <green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!  I've queued it up for 2.6.25.

--b.
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