| Message ID | 1392985508-6040-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com |
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| State | New |
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diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index e474ca2b..7d9261a 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -1813,6 +1813,11 @@ int nfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, const char *symname) GFP_KERNEL)) { SetPageUptodate(page); unlock_page(page); + /* + * add_to_page_cache_lru() grabs an extra page refcount. + * Drop it here to avoid leaking this page later. + */ + page_cache_release(page); } else __free_page(page);
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled mm: fix page leak at nfs_symlink() to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Luis ------ From 36a02f4f0410004b333ad547b578dc3157de94bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:25:48 -0800 Subject: mm: fix page leak at nfs_symlink() commit a0b54adda3fe4b4cc6d28f2a9217cd35d1aa888c upstream. Changes in commit a0b8cab3b9b2 ("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@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) -- 1.9.0