On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:52:06PM +0300, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Mikulas, Alasdair? I see the mempool_free() for the "master job", what
> about everything else? Does the dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback() perhaps
> need to do a
>
> job->master_job = job;
>
> or similar?

If you look at the other place that performs that mempool_alloc, it's indeed
present there.

Michael - can you test if this solves the problem?

Alasdair

--- a/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c
@@ -628,6 +628,7 @@ void *dm_kcopyd_prepare_callback(struct dm_kcopyd_client *kc,
job->kc = kc;
job->fn = fn;
job->context = context;
+ job->master_job = job;

atomic_inc(&kc->nr_jobs);


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On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 04:30:42PM +0200, Michael Leun wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 14:44:49 +0100
> Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Michael - can you test if this solves the problem?

OK, let's go with this patch then.

Linus, you can pull it from here:

http://people.redhat.com/agk/git/linux-dm for-linus

Alasdair G Kergon (1):
dm kcopyd: fix job_pool leak

drivers/md/dm-kcopyd.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

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