[PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: fix memory leak

[Seth Jennings]

On 04/04/2012 11:03 AM, Dan Magenheimer wrote:
>> From: Seth Jennings [mailto:sjenning at linux.vnet.ibm.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:14 AM
>> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> Cc: Nitin Gupta; Dan Magenheimer; Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk; Robert Jennings; Seth Jennings;
>> devel at driverdev.osuosl.org; linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org; linux-mm at kvack.org
>> Subject: [PATCH] staging: zsmalloc: fix memory leak
>>
>> From: Nitin Gupta <ngupta at vflare.org>
>>
>> This patch fixes a memory leak in zsmalloc where the first
>> subpage of each zspage is leaked when the zspage is freed.
>>
>> Based on 3.4-rc1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta at vflare.org>
>> Acked-by: Seth Jennings <sjenning at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> This is a rather severe memory leak and will affect most
> benchmarking anyone does to evaluate zcache in 3.4 (e.g. as
> to whether zcache is suitable for promotion), so t'would be nice
> to get this patch in for -rc2.  (Note it fixes a "regression"
> since it affects zcache only in 3.4+ because the fix is to
> the new zsmalloc allocator... so no change to stable trees.)
> 
> Acked-by: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer at oracle.com>

Thanks Dan for this clarification and the Ack.

I should have tagged this as urgent for the 3.4 release
and no impact on stable trees, since 3.4 is the first release
with this code.

--
Seth