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linux/fs/ramfs
Bob Liu b836aec53e ramfs: fix memleak on no-mmu arch
On no-mmu arch, there is a memleak during shmem test.  The cause of this
memleak is ramfs_nommu_expand_for_mapping() added page refcount to 2
which makes iput() can't free that pages.

The simple test file is like this:

  int main(void)
  {
	int i;
	key_t k = ftok("/etc", 42);

	for ( i=0; i<100; ++i) {
		int id = shmget(k, 10000, 0644|IPC_CREAT);
		if (id == -1) {
			printf("shmget error\n");
		}
		if(shmctl(id, IPC_RMID, NULL ) == -1) {
			printf("shm  rm error\n");
			return -1;
		}
	}
	printf("run ok...\n");
	return 0;
  }

And the result:

  root:/> free
               total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:         60320        17912        42408            0            0
  -/+ buffers:              17912        42408
  root:/> shmem
  run ok...
  root:/> free
               total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:         60320        19096        41224            0            0
  -/+ buffers:              19096        41224
  root:/> shmem
  run ok...
  root:/> free
               total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:         60320        20296        40024            0            0
  -/+ buffers:              20296        40024
  ...

After this patch the test result is:(no memleak anymore)

  root:/> free
               total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:         60320        16668        43652            0            0
  -/+ buffers:              16668        43652
  root:/> shmem
  run ok...
  root:/> free
               total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:         60320        16668        43652            0            0
  -/+ buffers:              16668        43652

Signed-off-by: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-14 16:06:56 -07:00
..
file-mmu.c
file-nommu.c ramfs: fix memleak on no-mmu arch 2011-04-14 16:06:56 -07:00
inode.c convert get_sb_nodev() users 2010-10-29 04:16:31 -04:00
internal.h
Makefile