This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
dmaengine: edma: fix memory leak when terminating running transfers
to the 3.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
dmaengine-edma-fix-memory-leak-when-terminating-running-transfers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5ca9e7ce6eebec53362ff779264143860ccf68cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Kulhavy <petr@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 13:35:51 +0200
Subject: dmaengine: edma: fix memory leak when terminating running transfers
From: Petr Kulhavy <petr@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 5ca9e7ce6eebec53362ff779264143860ccf68cd upstream.
If edma_terminate_all() was called while a transfer was running (i.e. after
edma_execute() but before edma_callback()) the echan->edesc was not freed.
This was due to the fact that a running transfer is on none of the
vchan lists: desc_submitted, desc_issued, desc_completed (edma_execute()
removes it from the desc_issued list), so the vchan_dma_desc_free_list()
called at the end of edma_terminate_all() didn't find it and didn't free it.
This bug was found on an AM1808 based hardware (very similar to da850evm,
however using the second MMC/SD controller), where intense operations on the SD
card wasted the device 128MB RAM within a couple of days.
Peter Ujfalusi:
The issue is even more severe since it affects cyclic (audio) transfers as
well. In this case starting/stopping audio will results memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Petr Kulhavy <petr@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Ujfalusi <peter.ujfalusi@xxxxxx>
CC: <linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/dma/edma.c | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/dma/edma.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/edma.c
@@ -258,6 +258,13 @@ static int edma_terminate_all(struct edm
*/
if (echan->edesc) {
int cyclic = echan->edesc->cyclic;
+
+ /*
+ * free the running request descriptor
+ * since it is not in any of the vdesc lists
+ */
+ edma_desc_free(&echan->edesc->vdesc);
+
echan->edesc = NULL;
edma_stop(echan->ch_num);
/* Move the cyclic channel back to default queue */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from petr@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.19/dmaengine-edma-fix-memory-leak-when-terminating-running-transfers.patch
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