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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org>
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org,
	Jan Schunk <scpcom@gmx.de>,
	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2] SUNRPC: Fix a slow server-side memory leak with RPC-over-TCP
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:04:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3747895.1712235857@warthog.procyon.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <171215477898.1643.12386933275741788356.stgit@klimt.1015granger.net>

Chuck Lever <cel@kernel.org> wrote:

> That commit assumed that sock_sendmsg() releases all the pages in
> the underlying bio_vec array, but the reality is that it doesn't.
> svc_xprt_release() releases the rqst's response pages, but the
> record marker page fragment isn't one of those, so it is never
> released.

More like the network layer will take its own refs and drop those when it is
done.  As you say, it doesn't release the caller's refs.

Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>


      reply	other threads:[~2024-04-04 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-03 14:36 [PATCH 2] SUNRPC: Fix a slow server-side memory leak with RPC-over-TCP Chuck Lever
2024-04-04 13:04 ` David Howells [this message]

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