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From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	linux-block@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>,
	Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, bart.vanassche@sandisk.com,
	drysdale@google.com
Subject: Re: kmemleak report after 9082e87bfbf8 ("block: remove struct bio_batch")
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:15:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5755BDB6.1030907@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160606172718.GA30574@lst.de>

On 06/06/2016 11:27 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 12:09:49PM -0500, Shaun Tancheff wrote:
>> I'm pretty sure it is missing a bio_put() after submit_bio_wait().
>>
>> Please excuse the hack-y patch but I think you need to do something
>> like this ...
>> (Note tabs eaten by gmail).
>
> Yeah, that makes sense - oddly enough submit_bio_wait doesn't do a
> bio_put. Still not sure why I don't see the leaks after repeated
> mkfs.xfs runs, though.

Because some of the users (blkdev_issue_flush()) need to inspect the bio 
after completion.

-- 
Jens Axboe

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-06-06 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-06 11:26 kmemleak report after 9082e87bfbf8 ("block: remove struct bio_batch") Catalin Marinas
2016-06-06 14:13 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-06 16:12   ` Catalin Marinas
2016-06-06 17:09     ` Shaun Tancheff
2016-06-06 17:27       ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-06-06 17:35         ` Catalin Marinas
2016-06-06 18:15         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2016-06-07  9:39       ` Catalin Marinas
2016-06-07 14:18         ` Larry Finger
2016-06-07 15:43           ` David Drysdale
2016-06-07  4:06     ` Larry Finger
2016-06-07  6:36       ` Christoph Hellwig

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