The patch titled Subject: aoe: remove vestigial request queue allocation has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is aoe-remove-vestigial-request-queue-allocation.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: aoe: remove vestigial request queue allocation Before the aoe driver was an I/O request handler, it was a make_request-style block driver. Even so, there was a problem where sysfs expected a request queue to exist, so one was provided in commit 7135a71b19be1fa ("aoe: allocate unused request_queue for sysfs"). During the transition to the request-handler style, a patch was merged that was based on a driver without the noop queue, and the noop queue remained in place after the patch was merged, even though a new functional queue was introduced by the patch, allocated through blk_init_queue. The user impact is a memory leak proportional to the number of AoE targets discovered. This patch removes the memory leak and cleans up vestiges of the old do-nothing queue from the aoeblk_gdalloc function. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c | 17 ++++------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c~aoe-remove-vestigial-request-queue-allocation drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c~aoe-remove-vestigial-request-queue-allocation +++ a/drivers/block/aoe/aoeblk.c @@ -278,18 +278,12 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp) if (q == NULL) { pr_err("aoe: cannot allocate block queue for %ld.%d\n", d->aoemajor, d->aoeminor); - mempool_destroy(mp); - goto err_disk; + goto err_mempool; } - d->blkq = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL); - if (!d->blkq) - goto err_mempool; - d->blkq->backing_dev_info.name = "aoe"; - if (bdi_init(&d->blkq->backing_dev_info)) - goto err_blkq; spin_lock_irqsave(&d->lock, flags); - blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(d->blkq, BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS); + blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(q, BLK_DEF_MAX_SECTORS); + q->backing_dev_info.name = "aoe"; q->backing_dev_info.ra_pages = READ_AHEAD / PAGE_CACHE_SIZE; d->bufpool = mp; d->blkq = gd->queue = q; @@ -314,11 +308,8 @@ aoeblk_gdalloc(void *vp) aoedisk_add_sysfs(d); return; -err_blkq: - blk_cleanup_queue(d->blkq); - d->blkq = NULL; err_mempool: - mempool_destroy(d->bufpool); + mempool_destroy(mp); err_disk: put_disk(gd); err: _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ecashin@xxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch linux-compilerh-add-__must_hold-macro-for-functions-called-with-a-lock-held.patch documentation-sparsetxt-document-context-annotations-for-lock-checking.patch aoe-describe-the-behavior-of-the-err-character-device.patch aoe-print-warning-regarding-a-common-reason-for-dropped-transmits.patch aoe-print-warning-regarding-a-common-reason-for-dropped-transmits-v2.patch aoe-print-warning-regarding-a-common-reason-for-dropped-transmits-fix.patch aoe-update-cap-on-outstanding-commands-based-on-config-query-response.patch aoe-support-the-forgetting-flushing-of-a-user-specified-aoe-target.patch aoe-support-larger-i-o-requests-via-aoe_maxsectors-module-param.patch aoe-payload-sysfs-file-exports-per-aoe-command-data-transfer-size.patch aoe-cleanup-remove-unused-ata_scnt-function.patch aoe-whitespace-cleanup.patch aoe-update-driver-internal-version-number-to-60.patch aoe-provide-ata-identify-device-content-to-user-on-request.patch aoe-improve-network-congestion-handling.patch aoe-err-device-include-mac-addresses-for-unexpected-responses.patch aoe-manipulate-aoedev-network-stats-under-lock.patch aoe-use-high-resolution-rtts-with-fallback-to-low-res.patch aoe-commands-in-retransmit-queue-use-new-destination-on-failure.patch aoe-update-driver-internal-version-to-64.patch aoe-copy-fallback-timing-information-on-destination-failover.patch aoe-remove-vestigial-request-queue-allocation.patch aoe-increase-default-cap-on-outstanding-aoe-commands-in-the-network.patch aoe-cleanup-correct-comment-for-aoetgt-nout.patch aoe-remove-call-to-request-handler-from-i-o-completion.patch aoe-make-error-messages-more-specific-in-static-minor-allocation.patch aoe-initialize-sysminor-to-avoid-compiler-warning.patch aoe-return-real-minor-number-for-static-minors.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html