From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> The kmemleak detector shows this after test 139: unreferenced object 0xffff880079b88bb0 (size 264): comm "xfs_io", pid 4904, jiffies 4294909382 (age 276.824s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 48 7b c9 82 ff ff ff ff ........H{...... backtrace: [<ffffffff81afb04d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x2d/0x60 [<ffffffff8115c6cf>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x13f/0x2b0 [<ffffffff814aaa97>] kmem_zone_alloc+0x77/0xf0 [<ffffffff814aab2e>] kmem_zone_zalloc+0x1e/0x50 [<ffffffff8148f394>] xlog_ticket_alloc+0x34/0x170 [<ffffffff81494444>] xlog_cil_push+0xa4/0x3f0 [<ffffffff81494eca>] xlog_cil_force_lsn+0x15a/0x160 [<ffffffff814933a5>] _xfs_log_force_lsn+0x75/0x2d0 [<ffffffff814a264d>] _xfs_trans_commit+0x2bd/0x2f0 [<ffffffff8148bfdd>] xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x1ad/0x350 [<ffffffff814ac17f>] xfs_map_blocks+0x21f/0x370 [<ffffffff814ad1b7>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x1c7/0x550 [<ffffffff8112200a>] __writepage+0x1a/0x50 [<ffffffff81122df2>] write_cache_pages+0x1c2/0x4c0 [<ffffffff81123117>] generic_writepages+0x27/0x30 [<ffffffff814aba5d>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x5d/0x80 By inspection, the leak occurs when xlog_write() returns and error and we jump to the abort path without dropping the reference on the active ticket. Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@xxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c | 7 +++++-- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c index 9dc8125..c7eac5a 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c @@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ xlog_cil_push( error = xlog_write(log, &lvhdr, tic, &ctx->start_lsn, NULL, 0); if (error) - goto out_abort; + goto out_abort_free_ticket; /* * now that we've written the checkpoint into the log, strictly @@ -569,8 +569,9 @@ restart: } spin_unlock(&cil->xc_cil_lock); + /* xfs_log_done always frees the ticket on error. */ commit_lsn = xfs_log_done(log->l_mp, tic, &commit_iclog, 0); - if (error || commit_lsn == -1) + if (commit_lsn == -1) goto out_abort; /* attach all the transactions w/ busy extents to iclog */ @@ -600,6 +601,8 @@ out_free_ticket: kmem_free(new_ctx); return 0; +out_abort_free_ticket: + xfs_log_ticket_put(tic); out_abort: xlog_cil_committed(ctx, XFS_LI_ABORTED); return XFS_ERROR(EIO); -- 1.7.2.3 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs