• Zhu Yanjun's avatar
    net: rds: fix memory leak in rds_ib_flush_mr_pool · 85cb9287
    Zhu Yanjun authored
    When the following tests last for several hours, the problem will occur.
    
    Server:
        rds-stress -r 1.1.1.16 -D 1M
    Client:
        rds-stress -r 1.1.1.14 -s 1.1.1.16 -D 1M -T 30
    
    The following will occur.
    
    "
    Starting up....
    tsks   tx/s   rx/s  tx+rx K/s    mbi K/s    mbo K/s tx us/c   rtt us cpu
    %
      1      0      0       0.00       0.00       0.00    0.00 0.00 -1.00
      1      0      0       0.00       0.00       0.00    0.00 0.00 -1.00
      1      0      0       0.00       0.00       0.00    0.00 0.00 -1.00
      1      0      0       0.00       0.00       0.00    0.00 0.00 -1.00
    "
    >From vmcore, we can find that clean_list is NULL.
    
    >From the source code, rds_mr_flushd calls rds_ib_mr_pool_flush_worker.
    Then rds_ib_mr_pool_flush_worker calls
    "
     rds_ib_flush_mr_pool(pool, 0, NULL);
    "
    Then in function
    "
    int rds_ib_flush_mr_pool(struct rds_ib_mr_pool *pool,
                             int free_all, struct rds_ib_mr **ibmr_ret)
    "
    ibmr_ret is NULL.
    
    In the source code,
    "
    ...
    list_to_llist_nodes(pool, &unmap_list, &clean_nodes, &clean_tail);
    if (ibmr_ret)
            *ibmr_ret = llist_entry(clean_nodes, struct rds_ib_mr, llnode);
    
    /* more than one entry in llist nodes */
    if (clean_nodes->next)
            llist_add_batch(clean_nodes->next, clean_tail, &pool->clean_list);
    ...
    "
    When ibmr_ret is NULL, llist_entry is not executed. clean_nodes->next
    instead of clean_nodes is added in clean_list.
    So clean_nodes is discarded. It can not be used again.
    The workqueue is executed periodically. So more and more clean_nodes are
    discarded. Finally the clean_list is NULL.
    Then this problem will occur.
    
    Fixes: 1bc144b6 ("net, rds, Replace xlist in net/rds/xlist.h with llist")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarZhu Yanjun <yanjun.zhu@oracle.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSantosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    85cb9287
ib_rdma.c 16.6 KB