This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled dmaengine: edma: fix memory leak when terminating running transfers to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt20. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ------ >From 17a9e8d18385f6af8349d53025ae8ae33fea2958 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 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> [ luis: backported to 3.16: adjusted context ] Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/edma.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/dma/edma.c b/drivers/dma/edma.c index 037443c..52a3884 100644 --- a/drivers/dma/edma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/edma.c @@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ static int edma_terminate_all(struct edma_chan *echan) * echan->edesc is NULL and exit.) */ if (echan->edesc) { + /* + * 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); } -- 1.9.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html