[PATCH 1/1] block: CFQ refcounting fix

[brking]

I ran across a memory leak related to the cfq scheduler. The cfq
init function increments the refcnt of the associated request_queue.
This refcount gets decremented in cfq's exit function. Since blk_cleanup_queue
only calls the elevator exit function when its refcnt goes to zero, the
request_q never gets cleaned up. It didn't look like other io schedulers were
incrementing this refcnt, so I removed the refcnt increment and it fixed the
memory leak for me.

To reproduce the problem, simply use cfq and use the scsi_host scan sysfs
attribute to scan "- - -" repeatedly on a scsi host and watch the memory
vanish.

Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

 linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c~cfq_refcnt_fix drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c
--- linux-2.6/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c~cfq_refcnt_fix	2005-08-30 17:26:55.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6-bjking1/drivers/block/cfq-iosched.c	2005-08-30 17:26:55.000000000 -0500
@@ -2318,7 +2318,6 @@ static int cfq_init_queue(request_queue_
 	e->elevator_data = cfqd;
 
 	cfqd->queue = q;
-	atomic_inc(&q->refcnt);
 
 	cfqd->max_queued = q->nr_requests / 4;
 	q->nr_batching = cfq_queued;
_
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