On Thu, 2015-09-17 at 08:33 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 07:29:17PM -0500, Suman Anna wrote:
> > The virtio core uses a static ida named virtio_index_ida for
> > assigning index numbers to virtio devices during registration.
> > The ida core may allocate some internal idr cache layers and
> > an ida bitmap upon any ida allocation, and all these layers are
> > truely freed only upon the ida destruction. The virtio_index_ida
> > is not destroyed at present, leading to a memory leak when using
> > the virtio core as a module and atleast one virtio device is
> > registered and unregistered.
> >
> > Fix this by invoking ida_destroy() in the virtio core module
> > exit.
> >
> > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Suman Anna <s-anna@xxxxxx>
>
> Interesting.
> Will the same apply to e.g. sd_index_ida in drivers/scsi/sd.c
> or iscsi_sess_ida in drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c?
>
> If no, why not?
>
> One doesn't generally expect to have to free global variables.
> Maybe we should forbid DEFINE_IDA in modules?
>
> James, could you comment on this please?
ida is Tejun's baby (cc'd). However, it does look like without
ida_destroy() you will leave a cached ida->bitmap dangling because we're
trying to be a bit clever in ida_remove() so we cache the bitmap to
relieve ida_pre_get() of the burden if we would otherwise free it.
I don't understand why you'd want to forbid DEFINE_IDA ... all it does
is pre-initialise a usually static ida structure. The initialised
structure will have a NULL bitmap cache that's allocated in the first
ida_pre_get() ... that all seems to work as expected and no different
from a dynamically allocated struct ida. Or are you thinking because
ida_destory() doesn't set bitmap to NULL, it damages the reuse? In
which case I'm not sure there's much benefit to making it reusable, but
I suppose we could by adding a memset into ida_destroy().
James
> > ---
> > drivers/virtio/virtio.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> > index b1877d73fa56..7062bb0975a5 100644
> > --- a/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> > +++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio.c
> > @@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ static int virtio_init(void)
> > static void __exit virtio_exit(void)
> > {
> > bus_unregister(&virtio_bus);
> > + ida_destroy(&virtio_index_ida);
> > }
> > core_initcall(virtio_init);
> > module_exit(virtio_exit);
> > --
> > 2.5.0
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