This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
xen-netback: fix memory leaks on XenBus disconnect
to the 4.9-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:
xen-netback-fix-memory-leaks-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Jul 3 11:54:13 CEST 2017
From: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 20:49:37 +0000
Subject: xen-netback: fix memory leaks on XenBus disconnect
From: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 9a6cdf52b85ea5fb21d2bb31e4a7bc61b79923a7 ]
Eliminate memory leaks introduced several years ago by cleaning the
queue resources which are allocated on XenBus connection event. Namely, queue
structure array and pages used for IO rings.
Signed-off-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c
@@ -493,11 +493,20 @@ static int backend_create_xenvif(struct
static void backend_disconnect(struct backend_info *be)
{
if (be->vif) {
+ unsigned int queue_index;
+
xen_unregister_watchers(be->vif);
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
xenvif_debugfs_delif(be->vif);
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
xenvif_disconnect_data(be->vif);
+ for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < be->vif->num_queues; ++queue_index)
+ xenvif_deinit_queue(&be->vif->queues[queue_index]);
+
+ vfree(be->vif->queues);
+ be->vif->num_queues = 0;
+ be->vif->queues = NULL;
+
xenvif_disconnect_ctrl(be->vif);
}
}
@@ -1040,6 +1049,8 @@ static void connect(struct backend_info
err:
if (be->vif->num_queues > 0)
xenvif_disconnect_data(be->vif); /* Clean up existing queues */
+ for (queue_index = 0; queue_index < be->vif->num_queues; ++queue_index)
+ xenvif_deinit_queue(&be->vif->queues[queue_index]);
vfree(be->vif->queues);
be->vif->queues = NULL;
be->vif->num_queues = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from igor.druzhinin@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/xen-netback-protect-resource-cleaning-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch
queue-4.9/xen-netback-fix-memory-leaks-on-xenbus-disconnect.patch