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H A D | scatterlist.c | b2a182a4 Thu Oct 15 13:57:35 CDT 2020 Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> sgl_alloc_order: fix memory leak
sgl_alloc_order() can fail when 'length' is large on a memory constrained system. When order > 0 it will potentially be making several multi-page allocations with the later ones more likely to fail than the earlier one. So it is important that sgl_alloc_order() frees up any pages it has obtained before returning NULL. In the case when order > 0 it calls the wrong free page function and leaks. In testing the leak was sufficient to bring down my 8 GiB laptop with OOM.
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> b2a182a4 Thu Oct 15 13:57:35 CDT 2020 Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> sgl_alloc_order: fix memory leak sgl_alloc_order() can fail when 'length' is large on a memory constrained system. When order > 0 it will potentially be making several multi-page allocations with the later ones more likely to fail than the earlier one. So it is important that sgl_alloc_order() frees up any pages it has obtained before returning NULL. In the case when order > 0 it calls the wrong free page function and leaks. In testing the leak was sufficient to bring down my 8 GiB laptop with OOM. Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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