commit 39a169b62b415390398291080dafe63aec751e0a upstream. get_disk(),get_gendisk() calls have non explicit side effect: they increase the reference on the disk owner module. The following is the correct sequence how to get a disk reference and to put it: disk = get_gendisk(...); /* use disk */ owner = disk->fops->owner; put_disk(disk); module_put(owner); fs/block_dev.c is aware of this required module_put() call, but f.e. blkg_conf_finish(), which is located in block/blk-cgroup.c, does not put a module reference. To see a leakage in action cgroups throttle config can be used. In the following script I'm removing throttle for /dev/ram0 (actually this is NOP, because throttle was never set for this device): # lsmod | grep brd brd 5175 0 # i=100; while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do echo "1:0 0" > \ /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device; i=$(($i - 1)); \ done # lsmod | grep brd brd 5175 100 Now brd module has 100 references. The issue is fixed by calling module_put() just right away put_disk(). Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com> Cc: Gi-Oh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> |
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partitions | ||
bio-integrity.c | ||
bio.c | ||
blk-cgroup.c | ||
blk-core.c | ||
blk-exec.c | ||
blk-flush.c | ||
blk-integrity.c | ||
blk-ioc.c | ||
blk-iopoll.c | ||
blk-lib.c | ||
blk-map.c | ||
blk-merge.c | ||
blk-mq-cpu.c | ||
blk-mq-cpumap.c | ||
blk-mq-sysfs.c | ||
blk-mq-tag.c | ||
blk-mq-tag.h | ||
blk-mq.c | ||
blk-mq.h | ||
blk-settings.c | ||
blk-softirq.c | ||
blk-sysfs.c | ||
blk-tag.c | ||
blk-throttle.c | ||
blk-timeout.c | ||
blk.h | ||
bounce.c | ||
bsg-lib.c | ||
bsg.c | ||
cfq-iosched.c | ||
cmdline-parser.c | ||
compat_ioctl.c | ||
deadline-iosched.c | ||
elevator.c | ||
genhd.c | ||
ioctl.c | ||
ioprio.c | ||
Kconfig | ||
Kconfig.iosched | ||
Makefile | ||
noop-iosched.c | ||
partition-generic.c | ||
scsi_ioctl.c | ||
t10-pi.c |