Re: DMA: atmel_serial: Opening and closing the serial device repeatedly causes kmalloc-32 slab leak

[Alexandre Belloni]

Hello Richard,

On 27/11/2018 10:51:13+0100, richard.genoud@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I reproduced the memory leak on my board (at91sam9g35-cm) with a 4.20-rc3.
> 
> It triggered an OOM after a couple of hours running a code like this:
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <unistd.h>
> 
> 
> int main(int argc, char **argv)
> {
> 	int fd;
> 	do {
> 		fd = open("/dev/ttyS1", O_RDONLY);
> 		close(fd);
> 	} while (true);
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> As Mario pointed out, this only happens when atmel,use-dma-{r,t}x are
> used in the device-tree.
> 
> Adding:
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK=y
> Doesn't show anything suspect in /proc/slab_allocators
> 
> From what I found until now, it's something done in :
> dma_request_slave_channel();
> that leaks kmalloc-32
> Mabe I missed something, but it seems that everything DMA related is
> deallocated in atmel_release_{tx,rx}_dma().
> 
> Is this ringing a bell ?
> 

Yes, this is known issue and it has yet to be worked on.

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