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SubjectRe: [BUG] It seems that i found a bug in the linux kernel, and it also in the newest kernel version
On Fri, Dec 26 2008, eagle black wrote:
> let's see, int the function elevator_init of block/elevator.c ,
> if the function elevator_init_queue failed for some reason, and the memory
> of elevator_alloc alloced does not free!
>
> int elevator_init(struct request_queue *q, char *name)
> {
> struct elevator_type *e = NULL;
> struct elevator_queue *eq;
> int ret = 0;
> void *data;
>
> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&q->queue_head);
> q->last_merge = NULL;
> q->end_sector = 0;
> q->boundary_rq = NULL;
>
> if (name) {
> e = elevator_get(name);
> if (!e)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> if (!e && *chosen_elevator) {
> e = elevator_get(chosen_elevator);
> if (!e)
> printk(KERN_ERR "I/O scheduler %s not found\n",
> chosen_elevator);
> }
>
> if (!e) {
> e = elevator_get(CONFIG_DEFAULT_IOSCHED);
> if (!e) {
> printk(KERN_ERR
> "Default I/O scheduler not found. " \
> "Using noop.\n");
> e = elevator_get("noop");
> }
> }
>
> eq = elevator_alloc(q, e);
> if (!eq)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> data = elevator_init_queue(q, eq);
> if (!data) {
> kobject_put(&eq->kobj);

See the kobject_put() there. It'll put the one and only reference to
this kobject, which wil end up in elevator_release() that then frees
'eq' (called 'e' there).

--
Jens Axboe



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