Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: fix memory leak when submit fails

[Javier González]

On 21.01.2021 05:47, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 1/21/21 12:22 AM, Pan Bian wrote:
> > The allocated page is not released if error occurs in
> > nvm_submit_io_sync_raw(). __free_page() is moved ealier to avoid
> > possible memory leak issue.
>
> Applied, thanks.
>
> General question for Matias - is lightnvm maintained anymore at all, or
> should we remove it? The project seems dead from my pov, and I don't
> even remember anyone even reviewing fixes from other people.

At least from the pblk side, I have no objections to removing it. I test
briefly that pblk runs on new releases, but there are no new features or
known bug fixes coming in.

Current deployments - to the best of my knowledge - are forks, which are
not being retrofitted upstream.

For completeness, I get a number of questions and request primarily from
the academia. These people will probably accuse the lack of LightNVM. I
understand though that this is not an argument to keep it.

Javier