[linux-cifs-client] [PATCH 1/8] cifs: fix page refcount leak

[Steve French]

merged. Will wait a few days before request upstream.

 Reviewing and checking the others.

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> Commit 315e995c63a15cb4d4efdbfd70fe2db191917f7a is causing OOM kills
> when stress-testing a CIFS filesystem. The VFS readpages operation takes
> a page reference. The older code just handed this reference off to the
> page cache, but the new code takes an extra one. The simplest fix is to
> put the new reference after add_to_page_cache_lru.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin at suse.de>
> ---
>  fs/cifs/file.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/cifs/file.c b/fs/cifs/file.c
> index f1ff785..75541af 100644
> --- a/fs/cifs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/cifs/file.c
> @@ -1952,6 +1952,7 @@ static void cifs_copy_cache_pages(struct address_space *mapping,
>                        bytes_read -= PAGE_CACHE_SIZE;
>                        continue;
>                }
> +               page_cache_release(page);
>
>                target = kmap_atomic(page, KM_USER0);
>
> --
> 1.6.6.1
>
>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve