Re: [PATCH] Fix two potential mem leaks in MPT Fusion (mpt_attach())

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Thu Aug 02 2007 - 18:55:42 EST


On Thursday 02 August 2007 10:20:47 Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 02/08/07, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
[snip]
> > y'know, we could have a debug option which will spit warnings if someone
> > does a !__GFP_WAIT allocation while !in_atomic() (only works if
> > CONFIG_PREEMPT).
> >
> > But please, make it depend on !CONFIG_AKPM. I shudder to think about all
> > the stuff it would pick up.
> >
>
> I can try to cook up something like that tonight...
>

Ok, so I did a quick hack and I'm drowning in dmesg WARN_ON() traces
with my usual config.

This is what I added :

diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index 6c6d74f..e60dd9e 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
#include <linux/mempolicy.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
+#include <linux/hardirq.h>

/*
* Lock order:
@@ -1568,6 +1569,10 @@ static void __always_inline *slab_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s,

void *kmem_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *s, gfp_t gfpflags)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+ WARN_ON( !in_atomic() && !(gfpflags & __GFP_WAIT) );
+#endif
+
return slab_alloc(s, gfpflags, -1, __builtin_return_address(0));
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(kmem_cache_alloc);
@@ -2370,6 +2375,10 @@ void *__kmalloc(size_t size, gfp_t flags)
{
struct kmem_cache *s = get_slab(size, flags);

+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
+ WARN_ON( !in_atomic() && !(flags & __GFP_WAIT) );
+#endif
+
if (ZERO_OR_NULL_PTR(s))
return s;



And this is what I'm getting heaps of :

...
[ 165.128607] =======================
[ 165.128609] WARNING: at mm/slub.c:1573 kmem_cache_alloc()
[ 165.128611] [<c010400a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
[ 165.128614] [<c0104cd2>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
[ 165.128616] [<c0104cf6>] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
[ 165.128619] [<c0175ad3>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xe3/0x110
[ 165.128622] [<c015b10e>] mempool_alloc_slab+0xe/0x10
[ 165.128625] [<c015b211>] mempool_alloc+0x31/0xf0
[ 165.128628] [<c019d033>] bio_alloc_bioset+0x73/0x140
[ 165.128631] [<c019d10e>] bio_alloc+0xe/0x20
[ 165.128634] [<c019d6e1>] bio_map_kern+0x31/0x100
[ 165.128637] [<c02207b2>] blk_rq_map_kern+0x52/0x90
[ 165.128640] [<c02c418b>] scsi_execute+0x4b/0xe0
[ 165.128643] [<c02e5f28>] sr_do_ioctl+0xa8/0x230
[ 165.128646] [<c02e64f6>] sr_read_tochdr+0x76/0xb0
[ 165.128649] [<c02e654b>] sr_disk_status+0x1b/0xa0
[ 165.128652] [<c02e69db>] sr_cd_check+0x9b/0x1b0
[ 165.128655] [<c02e4fbd>] sr_media_change+0x7d/0x250
[ 165.128659] [<c02e6b8e>] media_changed+0x5e/0xa0
[ 165.128662] [<c02e6c01>] cdrom_media_changed+0x31/0x40
[ 165.128665] [<c02e51be>] sr_block_media_changed+0xe/0x10
[ 165.128668] [<c019e5a0>] check_disk_change+0x20/0x80
[ 165.128671] [<c02eaec3>] cdrom_open+0x173/0xa10
[ 165.128674] [<c02e526e>] sr_block_open+0x5e/0xa0
[ 165.128677] [<c019ed55>] do_open+0x85/0x2c0
[ 165.128680] [<c019f1b3>] blkdev_open+0x33/0x80
[ 165.128683] [<c0177c34>] __dentry_open+0xe4/0x200
[ 165.128686] [<c0177df5>] nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x40
[ 165.128689] [<c0177e49>] do_filp_open+0x49/0x60
[ 165.128692] [<c0177ea9>] do_sys_open+0x49/0xe0
[ 165.128695] [<c0177f7c>] sys_open+0x1c/0x20
[ 165.128697] [<c0102fba>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
...
[ 165.134957] WARNING: at mm/slub.c:1573 kmem_cache_alloc()
[ 165.134959] [<c010400a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
[ 165.134962] [<c0104cd2>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
[ 165.134965] [<c0104cf6>] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
[ 165.134969] [<c0175ad3>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xe3/0x110
[ 165.134971] [<c015b10e>] mempool_alloc_slab+0xe/0x10
[ 165.134974] [<c015b211>] mempool_alloc+0x31/0xf0
[ 165.134977] [<c0220b3c>] get_request+0xac/0x260
[ 165.134981] [<c022155c>] get_request_wait+0x1c/0x100
[ 165.134983] [<c0221672>] blk_get_request+0x32/0x70
[ 165.134986] [<c02c4162>] scsi_execute+0x22/0xe0
[ 165.134989] [<c02c428c>] scsi_execute_req+0x6c/0xd0
[ 165.134991] [<c02bff70>] ioctl_internal_command+0x40/0x100
[ 165.134996] [<c02c008c>] scsi_set_medium_removal+0x5c/0x90
[ 165.134999] [<c02e5e76>] sr_lock_door+0x16/0x20
[ 165.135002] [<c02e83d4>] cdrom_release+0x104/0x250
[ 165.135005] [<c02e5d74>] sr_block_release+0x24/0x40
[ 165.135008] [<c019eb96>] __blkdev_put+0x146/0x150
[ 165.135012] [<c019ebaa>] blkdev_put+0xa/0x10
[ 165.135015] [<c019f5e2>] blkdev_close+0x32/0x40
[ 165.135018] [<c017a586>] __fput+0xb6/0x180
[ 165.135021] [<c017a6b9>] fput+0x19/0x20
[ 165.135024] [<c0177a37>] filp_close+0x47/0x80
[ 165.135027] [<c0178e46>] sys_close+0x66/0xc0
[ 165.135030] [<c0102fba>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[ 165.135032] =======================
[ 166.564998] WARNING: at mm/slub.c:1573 kmem_cache_alloc()
[ 166.565006] [<c010400a>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
[ 166.565013] [<c0104cd2>] show_trace+0x12/0x20
[ 166.565016] [<c0104cf6>] dump_stack+0x16/0x20
[ 166.565020] [<c0175ad3>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xe3/0x110
[ 166.565030] [<c015b10e>] mempool_alloc_slab+0xe/0x10
[ 166.565039] [<c015b211>] mempool_alloc+0x31/0xf0
[ 166.565047] [<c019cfdf>] bio_alloc_bioset+0x1f/0x140
[ 166.565057] [<c019d10e>] bio_alloc+0xe/0x20
[ 166.565066] [<c01997b3>] submit_bh+0x63/0x100
[ 166.565075] [<c01c96f8>] journal_do_submit_data+0x28/0x40
[ 166.565085] [<c01c9e18>] journal_commit_transaction+0x658/0x1290
[ 166.565095] [<c01ce5f2>] kjournald+0xb2/0x1e0
[ 166.565103] [<c013b9a2>] kthread+0x42/0x70
[ 166.565112] [<c0103bff>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x18
[ 166.565121] =======================
...

etc...

So, where do we go from here?

Obviously my patch above is nothing but a quick hack.
Should I turn that into a proper debug config option?
Do we even want to clean up this stuff?
Am I even looking at the right thing?

I'm more than willing to try and create a proper debug option patch
as well as clean up some of these allocations if wanted... What say
"the powers that be" ?


Kind regards,

Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>


PS. Please keep me on Cc when replying.




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