Re: [PATCH] HFS: fix memory leak when unmounting

[Eugene Teo]

Dave Anderson wrote:
> When an HFS filesystem is unmounted, it leaks a 2-page
> bitmap.  Also, under extreme memory pressure, it's possible
> that hfs_releasepage() may use a tree pointer that has not
> been initialized, and if so, the release request should
> just be rejected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@xxxxxxxxx>

After applying the patch, I no longer see these:

hfs: bad catalog namelength
hfs: get root inode failed.
init invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1200d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.29 #3
Call Trace:
 [<c045b1f6>] oom_kill_process+0x6e/0x1e5
 [<c045b5e9>] __out_of_memory+0xfe/0x111
 [<c045b656>] out_of_memory+0x5a/0x7c
 [<c045d57e>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x2b6/0x34c
 [<c04704ba>] read_swap_cache_async+0x36/0xa9
 [<c0470596>] swapin_readahead+0x69/0x71
 [<c04689fd>] handle_mm_fault+0x2d9/0x587
 [<c063fbe3>] do_page_fault+0x2a2/0x579
 [<c063f941>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x579
 [<c063e282>] error_code+0x72/0x78
 [<c04d007b>] security_fixup_ops+0x40a/0xc3d
 [<c04fc014>] __copy_to_user_ll+0xc8/0xcf
 [<c04861bb>] core_sys_select+0x19b/0x2c2
 [<c048b57a>] mntput_no_expire+0x13/0xe1
 [<c0482b3d>] path_walk+0x67/0x70
 [<c04d72cb>] selinux_inode_getattr+0x52/0x5a
 [<c04fc429>] copy_to_user+0x25/0x39
 [<c047cea1>] cp_new_stat64+0xfc/0x10e
 [<c043a13a>] getnstimeofday+0x51/0xdb
 [<c0429354>] timespec_add_safe+0x1f/0x3e
 [<c0486350>] sys_select+0x6e/0x8f
 [<c040307a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
DMA per-cpu:
CPU    0: hi:    0, btch:   1 usd:   0
Normal per-cpu:
CPU    0: hi:  186, btch:  31 usd:  61
Active_anon:33 active_file:50 inactive_anon:52
 inactive_file:250 unevictable:1070 dirty:0 writeback:0 unstable:0
 free:1188 slab:2028 mapped:1060 pagetables:129 bounce:0
DMA free:2052kB min:84kB low:104kB high:124kB active_anon:0kB 
inactive_anon:0kB
active_file:8kB inactive_file:48kB unevictable:144kB present:15868kB
pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 492 492 492
Normal free:2700kB min:2792kB low:3488kB high:4188kB active_anon:132kB
inactive_anon:208kB active_file:192kB inactive_file:952kB unevictable:4136kB
present:503872kB pages_scanned:842 all_unreclaimable? yes
lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0
DMA: 1*4kB 22*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 1*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB
0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2052kB
Normal: 117*4kB 5*8kB 31*16kB 1*32kB 0*64kB 1*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 1*1024kB
0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2700kB
1322 total pagecache pages
38 pages in swap cache
Swap cache stats: add 10936, delete 10898, find 10973/12683
Free swap  = 1041020kB
Total swap = 1048568kB
Out of memory: kill process 2092 (hald) score 1788 or a child
Killed process 2093 (hald-runner)
init invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x1200d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0
Pid: 1, comm: init Not tainted 2.6.29 #3
Call Trace:
 [<c045b1f6>] oom_kill_process+0x6e/0x1e5
 [<c045b5e9>] __out_of_memory+0xfe/0x111
 [<c045b656>] out_of_memory+0x5a/0x7c
 [<c045d57e>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x2b6/0x34c
 [<c04704ba>] read_swap_cache_async+0x36/0xa9
 [<c0470596>] swapin_readahead+0x69/0x71
 [<c04689fd>] handle_mm_fault+0x2d9/0x587
 [<c063fbe3>] do_page_fault+0x2a2/0x579
 [<c063f941>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x579
 [<c063e282>] error_code+0x72/0x78
 [<c04d007b>] security_fixup_ops+0x40a/0xc3d
 [<c04fc014>] __copy_to_user_ll+0xc8/0xcf
 [<c04861bb>] core_sys_select+0x19b/0x2c2
 [<c048b57a>] mntput_no_expire+0x13/0xe1
 [<c0482b3d>] path_walk+0x67/0x70
 [<c04d72cb>] selinux_inode_getattr+0x52/0x5a
 [<c04fc429>] copy_to_user+0x25/0x39
 [<c047cea1>] cp_new_stat64+0xfc/0x10e
 [<c043a13a>] getnstimeofday+0x51/0xdb
 [<c0429354>] timespec_add_safe+0x1f/0x3e
 [<c0486350>] sys_select+0x6e/0x8f
 [<c040307a>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
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