xfs: fix log ticket leak on forced shutdown.
authorDave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:02:00 +0000 (12:02 +1100)
committerDave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:02:00 +0000 (12:02 +1100)
The kmemleak detector shows this after test 139:

unreferenced object 0xffff880079b88bb0 (size 264):
  comm "xfs_io", pid 4904, jiffies 4294909382 (age 276.824s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 48 7b c9 82 ff ff ff ff  ........H{......
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81afb04d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x2d/0x60
    [<ffffffff8115c6cf>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x13f/0x2b0
    [<ffffffff814aaa97>] kmem_zone_alloc+0x77/0xf0
    [<ffffffff814aab2e>] kmem_zone_zalloc+0x1e/0x50
    [<ffffffff8148f394>] xlog_ticket_alloc+0x34/0x170
    [<ffffffff81494444>] xlog_cil_push+0xa4/0x3f0
    [<ffffffff81494eca>] xlog_cil_force_lsn+0x15a/0x160
    [<ffffffff814933a5>] _xfs_log_force_lsn+0x75/0x2d0
    [<ffffffff814a264d>] _xfs_trans_commit+0x2bd/0x2f0
    [<ffffffff8148bfdd>] xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x1ad/0x350
    [<ffffffff814ac17f>] xfs_map_blocks+0x21f/0x370
    [<ffffffff814ad1b7>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x1c7/0x550
    [<ffffffff8112200a>] __writepage+0x1a/0x50
    [<ffffffff81122df2>] write_cache_pages+0x1c2/0x4c0
    [<ffffffff81123117>] generic_writepages+0x27/0x30
    [<ffffffff814aba5d>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x5d/0x80

By inspection, the leak occurs when xlog_write() returns and error
and we jump to the abort path without dropping the reference on the
active ticket.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
fs/xfs/xfs_log_cil.c

index 9dc8125..c7eac5a 100644 (file)
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ xlog_cil_push(
 
        error = xlog_write(log, &lvhdr, tic, &ctx->start_lsn, NULL, 0);
        if (error)
-               goto out_abort;
+               goto out_abort_free_ticket;
 
        /*
         * now that we've written the checkpoint into the log, strictly
@@ -569,8 +569,9 @@ restart:
        }
        spin_unlock(&cil->xc_cil_lock);
 
+       /* xfs_log_done always frees the ticket on error. */
        commit_lsn = xfs_log_done(log->l_mp, tic, &commit_iclog, 0);
-       if (error || commit_lsn == -1)
+       if (commit_lsn == -1)
                goto out_abort;
 
        /* attach all the transactions w/ busy extents to iclog */
@@ -600,6 +601,8 @@ out_free_ticket:
        kmem_free(new_ctx);
        return 0;
 
+out_abort_free_ticket:
+       xfs_log_ticket_put(tic);
 out_abort:
        xlog_cil_committed(ctx, XFS_LI_ABORTED);
        return XFS_ERROR(EIO);