Re: [PATCH]cfq-iosched: fix an oops caused by slab leak

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue May 25 2010 - 04:15:55 EST


On Tue, May 25 2010, Shaohua Li wrote:
> I got below oops when unloading cfq-iosched. Considering scenario:
> queue A merge to B, C merge to D and B will be merged to D. Before B is merged
> to D, we do split B. We should put B's reference for D.
>
> [ 807.768536] =============================================================================
> [ 807.768539] BUG cfq_queue: Objects remaining on kmem_cache_close()
> [ 807.768541] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [ 807.768543]
> [ 807.768546] INFO: Slab 0xffffea0003e6b4e0 objects=26 used=1 fp=0xffff88011d584fd8 flags=0x200000000004082
> [ 807.768550] Pid: 5946, comm: rmmod Tainted: G W 2.6.34-07097-gf4b87de-dirty #724
> [ 807.768552] Call Trace:
> [ 807.768560] [<ffffffff81104e8d>] slab_err+0x8f/0x9d
> [ 807.768564] [<ffffffff811059e1>] ? flush_cpu_slab+0x0/0x93
> [ 807.768569] [<ffffffff8164be52>] ? add_preempt_count+0xe/0xca
> [ 807.768572] [<ffffffff8164bd9c>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xe/0xb6
> [ 807.768577] [<ffffffff81648871>] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x15/0x30
> [ 807.768580] [<ffffffff8164bd9c>] ? sub_preempt_count+0xe/0xb6
> [ 807.768584] [<ffffffff811061bc>] list_slab_objects+0x9b/0x19f
> [ 807.768588] [<ffffffff8164bf0a>] ? add_preempt_count+0xc6/0xca
> [ 807.768591] [<ffffffff81109e27>] kmem_cache_destroy+0x13f/0x21d
> [ 807.768597] [<ffffffffa000ff13>] cfq_slab_kill+0x1a/0x43 [cfq_iosched]
> [ 807.768601] [<ffffffffa000ffcf>] cfq_exit+0x93/0x9e [cfq_iosched]
> [ 807.768606] [<ffffffff810973a2>] sys_delete_module+0x1b1/0x219
> [ 807.768612] [<ffffffff8102fb5b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [ 807.768618] INFO: Object 0xffff88011d584618 @offset=1560
> [ 807.768622] INFO: Allocated in cfq_get_queue+0x11e/0x274 [cfq_iosched] age=7173 cpu=1 pid=5496
> [ 807.768626] =============================================================================
>
> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@xxxxxxxxx>

Good catch, I will apply it and mark for -stable.

--
Jens Axboe

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