1. 10 May, 2012 1 commit
    • David Jeffery's avatar
      [SCSI] st: fix memory leak with >1MB tape I/O · 7c018a90
      David Jeffery authored
      There is a memory leak in the st driver when sending large enough reads or
      writes using st's direct I/O path.  As part of mapping the application's
      memory, a buffer to hold page pointers is allocated and the count of mapped
      pages is stored in field do_dio.  A non-zero do_dio marks that direct I/O is
      in use.
      
      But do_dio is only 1 byte in size.  Mapping 256 4k pages overflows
      do_dio and causes it to be set to 0, like direct I/O option was not
      used.  When the I/O completes, the buffer to hold the page pointers is
      not freed, and the page counts of the mapped pages are not reduced.
      Every I/O of this size then leaks memory.
      
      The size of do_dio needs to be increased to prevent it wrapping around.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarKai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>
      7c018a90
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