From: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [3.1-rc6] kmalloc(64) leak from IDE
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:26:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110922072643.GA27232@hostway.ca> (raw)
All sorts of fun with 3.1-rc!
On an older x86 box still using the IDE code, I'm seeing a kmalloc(64)
leak (according to slabtop) that basically OOM'd the box in a few days
(640 MB of RAM). This has popped up since 2.6.36, which ran for a long
time on this box with no problems. Issues seen on -rc5, so I rebuilt with
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK on 9d037a777695993ec7437e5f451647dea7919d4c and
/sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak filled up with size 64 traces involving IDE
requests. Every trace seems to contain idedisk_prep_fn():
unreferenced object 0xe30c00c0 (size 64):
comm "md6_raid1", pid 255, jiffies 4294903935 (age 23889.704s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ea 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
7e 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ~... ...........
backtrace:
[<c1495c37>] kmemleak_alloc+0x27/0x50
[<c10b2f4a>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x8a/0x120
[<c131fe47>] idedisk_prep_fn+0x37/0xf0
[<c12758b3>] blk_peek_request+0xa3/0x1e0
[<c1311f15>] __ide_requeue_and_plug+0x25/0x30
[<c131257d>] do_ide_request+0x3d/0x4e0
[<c1270ff4>] __blk_run_queue+0x14/0x20
[<c127699c>] __make_request+0x21c/0x290
[<c1274f26>] generic_make_request+0x1a6/0x490
[<c127526c>] submit_bio+0x5c/0xd0
[<c13a651b>] md_super_write+0x6b/0x80
[<c13a67ec>] md_update_sb+0x2bc/0x540
[<c13a7d51>] md_check_recovery+0x2c1/0x5f0
[<c138abce>] raid1d+0x2e/0xd90
[<c13a58d5>] md_thread+0xe5/0x110
[<c1047df4>] kthread+0x74/0x80
unreferenced object 0xc1c3d900 (size 64):
comm "hardirq", pid 0, jiffies 5819438 (age 829.636s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ea 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
7e 00 00 00 20 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ~... ...........
backtrace:
[<c1495c37>] kmemleak_alloc+0x27/0x50
[<c10b2f4a>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x8a/0x120
[<c131fe47>] idedisk_prep_fn+0x37/0xf0
[<c12758b3>] blk_peek_request+0xa3/0x1e0
[<c1311f15>] __ide_requeue_and_plug+0x25/0x30
[<c1311f2f>] ide_requeue_and_plug+0xf/0x20
[<c1311fb8>] ide_intr+0x78/0x1e0
[<c1065c14>] handle_irq_event_percpu+0x54/0x1d0
[<c1065dac>] handle_irq_event+0x1c/0x30
[<c1067b8c>] handle_level_irq+0x4c/0xa0
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
idedisk_prep_fn() seems to allocate a command and return it as
rq->special, but I'm not following what happens after that.
Simon-
next reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-22 7:26 Simon Kirby [this message]
2011-09-22 8:48 ` [3.1-rc6] kmalloc(64) leak from IDE Borislav Petkov
2011-09-22 20:23 ` Simon Kirby
2011-09-23 7:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-09-23 15:58 ` Bernd Schubert
2011-09-23 16:08 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-09-23 16:34 ` Bernd Schubert
2011-09-23 16:40 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2011-09-23 17:49 ` Bernd Schubert
2011-09-23 17:38 ` Simon Kirby
2011-09-25 8:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-09-26 8:05 ` Simon Kirby
2011-09-27 17:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-09-29 9:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2011-09-29 22:45 ` Simon Kirby
2011-09-30 6:40 ` Borislav Petkov
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