ide-disk: Fix request requeuing
authorBorislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 18:28:18 +0000 (14:28 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 3 Oct 2011 18:28:18 +0000 (14:28 -0400)
Simon Kirby reported that on his RAID setup with idedisk underneath
the box OOMs after a couple of days of runtime. Running with
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK pointed to idedisk_prep_fn() which unconditionally
allocates an ide_cmd struct. However, ide_requeue_and_plug() can be
called more than once per request, either from the request issue or the
IRQ handler path and do blk_peek_request() ends up in idedisk_prep_fn()
repeatedly, allocating a struct ide_cmd everytime and "forgetting" the
previous pointer.

Make sure the code reuses the old allocated chunk.

Reported-and-tested-by: Simon Kirby <sim@hostway.ca>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [ 39.x, 3.0.x ]
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=131667641517919
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110922072643.GA27232@hostway.ca
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/ide/ide-disk.c

index 274798068a54648c0b504045982a02fda95c0892..16f69be820c7bb13da94f253b5e7bb33c831fea5 100644 (file)
@@ -435,7 +435,12 @@ static int idedisk_prep_fn(struct request_queue *q, struct request *rq)
        if (!(rq->cmd_flags & REQ_FLUSH))
                return BLKPREP_OK;
 
-       cmd = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmd), GFP_ATOMIC);
+       if (rq->special) {
+               cmd = rq->special;
+               memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(*cmd));
+       } else {
+               cmd = kzalloc(sizeof(*cmd), GFP_ATOMIC);
+       }
 
        /* FIXME: map struct ide_taskfile on rq->cmd[] */
        BUG_ON(cmd == NULL);