Re: [PATCH V4 10/12] block: call __bio_free in bio_endio

Shaohua Li
2017-06-28T21:42:58Z

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 11:29:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 09:30:00AM -0700, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > From: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
> >
> > bio_free isn't a good place to free cgroup/integrity info. There are a
> > lot of cases bio is allocated in special way (for example, in stack) and
> > never gets called by bio_put hence bio_free, we are leaking memory. This
> > patch moves the free to bio endio, which should be called anyway. The
> > __bio_free call in bio_free is kept, in case the bio never gets called
> > bio endio.
> >
> > This assumes ->bi_end_io() doesn't access cgroup/integrity info, which
> > seems true in my audit. Otherwise, we probably must add a flag to
> > distinguish if bio will be called by bio_put.
>
> bio_integrity_endio -> bio_integrity_verify_fn -> bio_integrity_process
> access the integrity data, so I don't think this works as-is.

oh, I probably missed the integrity endio. could we let bio_integrity_verify_fn
free integrity info and and bio_endio free cgroup info?