Re: [PATCH 1/2] block: shutdown blktrace in case of fatal signal pending

[Ming Lei]

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 06:53:30PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 04:14:39PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> > blktrace may allocate lots of memory, if the process is terminated
> > by user or OOM, we need to provide one chance to remove the trace
> > buffer, otherwise memory leak may be caused.
> > 
> > Fix the issue by shutdown blktrace in case of task exiting in
> > blkdev_close().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This just seems weird.  blktrace has no relationship to open
> block device instances.

blktrace still needs to open one blkdev, then send its own ioctl
commands to block layer. In case of OOM, the allocated memory in
these ioctl commands won't be released.

Or any other suggestion?

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Ming