From: phcoder <phcoder@gmail.com>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Leak fixes
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:47:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B52C12.5080105@gmail.com> (raw)
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Hello I discovered some memory leaks. Here is the fix
The main one was is that if a hash collision occurs new cache entry
overwrites the old one but the old one wasn't freed. When loading a big
file it was leaking huge amounts of memory
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Regards
Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
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Index: kern/disk.c
===================================================================
--- kern/disk.c (revision 2023)
+++ kern/disk.c (working copy)
@@ -157,11 +175,14 @@ grub_disk_cache_store (unsigned long dev_id, unsig
{
unsigned index;
struct grub_disk_cache *cache;
-
- grub_disk_cache_invalidate (dev_id, disk_id, sector);
index = grub_disk_cache_get_index (dev_id, disk_id, sector);
cache = grub_disk_cache_table + index;
+
+ cache->lock = 1;
+ grub_free (cache->data);
+ cache->data = 0;
+ cache->lock = 0;
cache->data = grub_malloc (GRUB_DISK_SECTOR_SIZE << GRUB_DISK_CACHE_BITS);
if (! cache->data)
Index: disk/scsi.c
===================================================================
--- disk/scsi.c (revision 2023)
+++ disk/scsi.c (working copy)
@@ -255,6 +255,7 @@ grub_scsi_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk
scsi->name = grub_strdup (name);
if (! scsi->name)
{
+ grub_free (scsi);
return grub_errno;
}
@@ -263,6 +264,7 @@ grub_scsi_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk
err = grub_scsi_inquiry (scsi);
if (err)
{
+ grub_free (scsi);
grub_dprintf ("scsi", "inquiry failed\n");
return grub_errno;
}
@@ -275,6 +277,7 @@ grub_scsi_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk
if (scsi->devtype != grub_scsi_devtype_direct
&& scsi->devtype != grub_scsi_devtype_cdrom)
{
+ grub_free (scsi);
return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE,
"unknown SCSI device");
}
@@ -287,6 +290,7 @@ grub_scsi_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk
err = grub_scsi_read_capacity (scsi);
if (err)
{
+ grub_free (scsi);
grub_dprintf ("scsi", "READ CAPACITY failed\n");
return grub_errno;
}
@@ -303,6 +307,8 @@ grub_scsi_open (const char *name, grub_disk_t disk
}
}
+ grub_free (scsi);
+
return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_UNKNOWN_DEVICE, "not a SCSI disk");
}
Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
--- ChangeLog (revision 2023)
+++ ChangeLog (working copy)
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+2009-03-09 Vladimir Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com>
+
+ Leak fixes
+
+ * kern/disk.c (grub_disk_cache_store): Invalidate previous cache
+ in case of collision
+ * disk/scsi.c (grub_scsi_open): free scsi in case of error
+
2009-03-09 Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
* conf/powerpc-ieee1275.rmk (grub_emu_SOURCES): Remove duplicated
next reply other threads:[~2009-03-09 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-09 14:47 phcoder [this message]
2009-03-22 13:09 ` Leak fixes phcoder
2009-03-22 13:45 ` Robert Millan
2009-03-22 13:52 ` phcoder
2009-03-29 21:21 ` phcoder
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