On 29/12/14 04:52, Marek Lindner wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2014 23:32:15 Linus Lüssing wrote:
>> This patch fixes a potential memory leak which can occur once an
>> originator times out. On timeout the according global translation table
>> entry might not get purged correctly. Furthermore, the non purged TT
>> entry will cause its orig-node to leak, too. Which additionally can lead
>> to the new multicast optimization feature not kicking in because of a
>> therefore bogus counter.
> 
> So far, I am with you ..
> 
> 
>> In the wild with larger mesh networks we saw this leak quite regularly,
>> resulting in routers to reboot or killed processes. This was because
>> of a combination of two bugs: The bug fixed by commit
>> "batman-adv: fix delayed foreign originator recognition" (8a2ad5204674)
>> amplified this memory leak heavily. Since that commit I'd expect
>> it to happen rarely, probably only in paused and resumed VMs and
>> devices previously in stand-by.
> 
> This section shouldn't be part of the official commit message. It is hardly 
> relevant to the reviewer how often a memleak occurs and whether or not you 
> need a VM to trigger it. The provided commit id isn't valid in the Linux tree.
> 
> 
>> The issue this patch fixes is caused by batadv_orig_node_free_rcu()
>> never being called because of not yet released references to the
>> orig-node. References which were supposed to be released through
>> batadv_orig_node_free_rcu()->batadv_tt_global_del_orig().
> 
> Could you please provide addition insight as to which references are still 
> held ? I did look around but nothing obvious jumped at me. 
> 
> Generally, it wouldn't be bad if the commit message went into deeper detail 
> describing the nature of the bug instead of the middle section above to make 
> it easy to understand what is being fixed.
> 


Hi Linus and thanks for fixing this TT bug!

I agree with Marek about extending the commit message with a better
explanation of the actual bug, but at the same time I think it is good
to keep the commit message and ID of the other involved patches.

Moreover, please keep the commit ID of our batman-adv.git tree - I'll
then take care of converting them when sending the patches upstream.

Cheers,


-- 
Antonio Quartulli