Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 15:50:04 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bio_uncopy_user mem leak |
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Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de> wrote: > > When using bounce buffers for SG_IO commands with unaligned > buffers in blk_rq_map_user(), we should free the pages from > blk_rq_unmap_user() which calls bio_uncopy_user() for the > non-BIO_USER_MAPPED case. That function failed to free the > pages for write requests. > > So we leaked pages and you machine would go OOM. Rebooting > helped ;-)
Eureka. Thanks.
This really should trigger a 2.6.8.2. We'll see.
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