From: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:02:00 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: xfs: fix log ticket leak on forced shutdown.
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc3~5^2~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7db37c5e6575b229a5051be1d3ef15257ae0ba5d;p=pandora-kernel.git

xfs: fix log ticket leak on forced shutdown.

The kmemleak detector shows this after test 139:

unreferenced object 0xffff880079b88bb0 (size 264):
  comm "xfs_io", pid 4904, jiffies 4294909382 (age 276.824s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00  .....N..........
    ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 48 7b c9 82 ff ff ff ff  ........H{......
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81afb04d>] kmemleak_alloc+0x2d/0x60
    [<ffffffff8115c6cf>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x13f/0x2b0
    [<ffffffff814aaa97>] kmem_zone_alloc+0x77/0xf0
    [<ffffffff814aab2e>] kmem_zone_zalloc+0x1e/0x50
    [<ffffffff8148f394>] xlog_ticket_alloc+0x34/0x170
    [<ffffffff81494444>] xlog_cil_push+0xa4/0x3f0
    [<ffffffff81494eca>] xlog_cil_force_lsn+0x15a/0x160
    [<ffffffff814933a5>] _xfs_log_force_lsn+0x75/0x2d0
    [<ffffffff814a264d>] _xfs_trans_commit+0x2bd/0x2f0
    [<ffffffff8148bfdd>] xfs_iomap_write_allocate+0x1ad/0x350
    [<ffffffff814ac17f>] xfs_map_blocks+0x21f/0x370
    [<ffffffff814ad1b7>] xfs_vm_writepage+0x1c7/0x550
    [<ffffffff8112200a>] __writepage+0x1a/0x50
    [<ffffffff81122df2>] write_cache_pages+0x1c2/0x4c0
    [<ffffffff81123117>] generic_writepages+0x27/0x30
    [<ffffffff814aba5d>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x5d/0x80

By inspection, the leak occurs when xlog_write() returns and error
and we jump to the abort path without dropping the reference on the
active ticket.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
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