Re: [PATCH] mm: fix page leak at nfs_symlink()

[Rik van Riel]

On 02/07/2014 10:19 AM, Rafael Aquini wrote:
> Changes committed by "a0b8cab3 mm: remove lru parameter from
> __pagevec_lru_add and remove parts of pagevec API" have introduced
> a call to add_to_page_cache_lru() which causes a leak in nfs_symlink()
> as now the page gets an extra refcount that is not dropped.
>
> Jan Stancek observed and reported the leak effect while running test8 from
> Connectathon Testsuite. After several iterations over the test case,
> which creates several symlinks on a NFS mountpoint, the test system was
> quickly getting into an out-of-memory scenario.
>
> This patch fixes the page leak by dropping that extra refcount
> add_to_page_cache_lru() is grabbing.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>

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