[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "nfs: fix pnfs direct write memory leak" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    nfs: fix pnfs direct write memory leak

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt2.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d31de377d01a9eb953b25c3aec2585f5cacac388 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peng Tao <tao.peng at primarydata.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 22:36:50 +0800
Subject: nfs: fix pnfs direct write memory leak

commit 8c393f9a721c30a030049a680e1bf896669bb279 upstream.

For pNFS direct writes, layout driver may dynamically allocate ds_cinfo.buckets.
So we need to take care to free them when freeing dreq.

Ideally this needs to be done inside layout driver where ds_cinfo.buckets
are allocated. But buckets are attached to dreq and reused across LD IO iterations.
So I feel it's OK to free them in the generic layer.

Signed-off-by: Peng Tao <tao.peng at primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust at primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/nfs/direct.c         |  1 +
 include/linux/nfs_xdr.h | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/direct.c b/fs/nfs/direct.c
index 1b34eeb0d8de..73a3023e2702 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/direct.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/direct.c
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ static void nfs_direct_req_free(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	struct nfs_direct_req *dreq = container_of(kref, struct nfs_direct_req, kref);

+	nfs_free_pnfs_ds_cinfo(&dreq->ds_cinfo);
 	if (dreq->l_ctx != NULL)
 		nfs_put_lock_context(dreq->l_ctx);
 	if (dreq->ctx != NULL)
diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_xdr.h b/include/linux/nfs_xdr.h
index 2c35d524ffc6..a8f111be79a0 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_xdr.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_xdr.h
@@ -1231,11 +1231,22 @@ struct nfs41_free_stateid_res {
 	unsigned int			status;
 };

+static inline void
+nfs_free_pnfs_ds_cinfo(struct pnfs_ds_commit_info *cinfo)
+{
+	kfree(cinfo->buckets);
+}
+
 #else

 struct pnfs_ds_commit_info {
 };

+static inline void
+nfs_free_pnfs_ds_cinfo(struct pnfs_ds_commit_info *cinfo)
+{
+}
+
 #endif /* CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 */

 struct nfs_page;
--
2.1.0