powerpc/rtas_flash: Free kmem upon module exit
authorVasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Fri, 8 Feb 2013 01:18:36 +0000 (01:18 +0000)
committerMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Thu, 18 Apr 2013 01:52:58 +0000 (11:52 +1000)
Memory allocated to rtas_firmware_flash_list in rtas_flash_write
is not freed during module exit. We hit below call trace if we
unload rtas_flash module after loading new firmware image and
before rebooting the system.

Call trace:
----------
Feb  6 08:42:10 eagle3 kernel: kmem_cache_destroy rtas_flash_cache: Slab cache still has objects
Feb  6 08:42:10 eagle3 kernel: Call Trace:
Feb  6 08:42:10 eagle3 kernel: [c00000001c303b40] [c000000000014940] .show_stack+0x70/0x1c0 (unreliable)
Feb  6 08:42:10 eagle3 kernel: [c00000001c303bf0] [c000000000199bec] .kmem_cache_destroy+0x15c/0x170
Feb  6 08:42:10 eagle3 kernel: [c00000001c303c90] [d000000006fa1208] .rtas_flash_cleanup+0x3c/0x80 [rtas_flash]
Feb  6 08:42:10 eagle3 kernel: [c00000001c303d20] [c0000000000f8970] .SyS_delete_module+0x1d0/0x2e0
Feb  6 08:42:10 eagle3 kernel: [c00000001c303e30] [c000000000009954] syscall_exit+0x0/0x94

This patch frees rtas_firmware_flash_list during module exit.

Signed-off-by: Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c

index c642f01..a7020d2 100644 (file)
@@ -790,6 +790,11 @@ static void __exit rtas_flash_cleanup(void)
 {
        rtas_flash_term_hook = NULL;
 
+       if (rtas_firmware_flash_list) {
+               free_flash_list(rtas_firmware_flash_list);
+               rtas_firmware_flash_list = NULL;
+       }
+
        if (flash_block_cache)
                kmem_cache_destroy(flash_block_cache);