On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:37:44 +0100 > Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 01:55:40 +0000 >> "Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW)" <Dennis1.Chen@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > CC'ing maintainer: Martin Schwidefsky & Heiko Carstens... >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW) >> > Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:41 AM >> > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> > Cc: beattiem@xxxxxxxxxx; holzheu@xxxxxxxxxx; munzert@xxxxxxxxxx; linux390@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Chen, Dennis (SRDC SW) >> > Subject: [PATCH]s390/char/vmur.c: memory leak Fix in the driver >> > >> > This patch is used to fix a memory leak issue in s390/char/vmur.c: a character device instance is >> > allocated by cdev_alloc, the cdev_del will not free that space if cdev_init is applied before. >> > >> > Signed-off-by: dennis1.chen@xxxxxxx >> > --- a/s390/char/vmur.c 2012-03-18 02:50:47.950963949 +0800 >> > +++ b/s390/char/vmur.c 2012-03-18 03:12:04.790936740 +0800 >> > @@ -903,7 +903,7 @@ static int ur_set_online(struct ccw_devi >> > goto fail_urdev_put; >> > } >> > >> > - cdev_init(urd->char_device, &ur_fops); >> > + urd->char_device->ops = &ur_fops; >> > urd->char_device->dev = MKDEV(major, minor); >> > urd->char_device->owner = ur_fops.owner; >> > >> >> How does that fix anything? My copy of cdev_init looks like this: >> >> void cdev_init(struct cdev *cdev, const struct file_operations *fops) >> { >> memset(cdev, 0, sizeof *cdev); >> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cdev->list); >> kobject_init(&cdev->kobj, &ktype_cdev_default); >> cdev->ops = fops; >> } >> >> It does not allocate anything but it initializes some more fields. >> The new code would only initialize the ops field. In addition >> cdev_del does a kobject_put and the release function of the object >> will call cdev_dynamic_release as far as I can tell. That code >> should be fine as it is. > > Hmm, forget that. cdev_init has a second kobject_init that replaces > ktype_cdev_dynamic with ktype_cdev_default. cdev_alloc already does > the initialization and your fix is just fine. > Seems like cdev_init is only there for static cdev structures. > > -- Yes, you're right. So if we don't have this patch, all the cdev instance allocated by cdev_alloc() will not freed by cdev_del as expected, if the system running with long enough time, memory will exhaust, especially for a server platform... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html