From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Harper Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio-blk: put request that was created to retrieve the device id Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 09:58:48 -0500 Message-ID: <20100917145848.GK30086@us.ibm.com> References: <20100909155726.GA9081@redhat.com> <20100909160324.GJ30086@us.ibm.com> <20100909175537.GA9589@redhat.com> <20100909183554.GK30086@us.ibm.com> <20100909191555.GA14486@redhat.com> <20100909194300.GA16908@redhat.com> <20100909201445.GA19656@redhat.com> <20100909203052.GL30086@us.ibm.com> <20100909210042.GA22092@redhat.com> <20100909211504.GA24506@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100909211504.GA24506@infradead.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Mike Snitzer , Ryan Harper , Tejun Heo , Mikulas Patocka , dm-devel@redhat.com, Vivek Goyal , john.cooper@redhat.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: dm-devel.ids * Christoph Hellwig [2010-09-09 16:18]: > On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 05:00:42PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote: > > diff --git a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > > index 1260628..831e75c 100644 > > --- a/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > > +++ b/drivers/block/virtio_blk.c > > @@ -199,6 +199,7 @@ static int virtblk_get_id(struct gendisk *disk, char *id_str) > > struct virtio_blk *vblk = disk->private_data; > > struct request *req; > > struct bio *bio; > > + int err; > > > > bio = bio_map_kern(vblk->disk->queue, id_str, VIRTIO_BLK_ID_BYTES, > > GFP_KERNEL); > > @@ -212,7 +213,10 @@ static int virtblk_get_id(struct gendisk *disk, char *id_str) > > } > > > > req->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_SPECIAL; > > - return blk_execute_rq(vblk->disk->queue, vblk->disk, req, false); > > + err = blk_execute_rq(vblk->disk->queue, vblk->disk, req, false); > > + blk_put_request(req); > > This looks correct as far as the request is concerned, but we're still > leaking the bio. Since __bio_map_kern() sets up bio->bi_end_io = bio_map_kern_endio (which does a bio_put(bio)) doesn't that ensure we don't leak? -- Ryan Harper Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center IBM Corp., Austin, Tx ryanh@us.ibm.com