Re: [PATCH] bio_uncopy_user mem leak

[Andrew Morton]

Kurt Garloff <garloff@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> When using bounce buffers for SG_IO commands with unaligned 
> buffers in blk_rq_map_user(), we should free the pages from
> blk_rq_unmap_user() which calls bio_uncopy_user() for the 
> non-BIO_USER_MAPPED case. That function failed to free the
> pages for write requests.
> 
> So we leaked pages and you machine would go OOM. Rebooting 
> helped ;-)

Eureka.  Thanks.

This really should trigger a 2.6.8.2.  We'll see.

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