This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled dmaengine: edma: fix memory leak when terminating running transfers to the 3.19-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: dmaengine-edma-fix-memory-leak-when-terminating-running-transfers.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 5ca9e7ce6eebec53362ff779264143860ccf68cd 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 From: Petr Kulhavy <petr@xxxxxxxxx> 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/dma/edma.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/dma/edma.c +++ b/drivers/dma/edma.c @@ -258,6 +258,13 @@ static int edma_terminate_all(struct edm */ if (echan->edesc) { int cyclic = echan->edesc->cyclic; + + /* + * 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); /* Move the cyclic channel back to default queue */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from petr@xxxxxxxxx are queue-3.19/dmaengine-edma-fix-memory-leak-when-terminating-running-transfers.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html