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firewire: fw-ohci: plug dma memory leak in AR handler

PATCH New Jarod Wilson 1 participant 1 message Mar 27, 2008 Firewire

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PATCH 1/1 firewire: fw-ohci: plug dma memory leak in AR handler

There's an ugly little memory leak in firewire-ohci's ar_context_tasklet(), where we're not freeing up some of the memory we use for each ar_buffer, due to a moving pointer. The problem has been there for a while, but didn't get noticed until after converting the AR routines over to use coherent DMA and I started running into I/O stall-outs with the following message output repeatedly to the console:

PCI-DMA: Out of IOMMU space for 53248 bytes at device 0000:04:09.0

Plugging this leak is definitely necessary, but unfortunately, isn't the entire answer to my problem, it only increases the amount of I/O that I can do before hitting the problem. Still working on tracking down the root cause..

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 drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c |    9 +++++----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c +5 -4
index 8ff9059..e1d50f7 100644
@@ -579,7 +579,8 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned long data)
 
 	if (d->res_count == 0) {
 		size_t size, rest, offset;
-		dma_addr_t buffer_bus;
+		dma_addr_t start_bus;
+		void *start;
 
 		/*
 		 * This descriptor is finished and we may have a
@@ -588,9 +589,9 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned long data)
 		 */
 
 		offset = offsetof(struct ar_buffer, data);
-		buffer_bus = le32_to_cpu(ab->descriptor.data_address) - offset;
+		start = buffer = ab;
+		start_bus = le32_to_cpu(ab->descriptor.data_address) - offset;
 
-		buffer = ab;
 		ab = ab->next;
 		d = &ab->descriptor;
 		size = buffer + PAGE_SIZE - ctx->pointer;
@@ -605,7 +606,7 @@ static void ar_context_tasklet(unsigned long data)
 			buffer = handle_ar_packet(ctx, buffer);
 
 		dma_free_coherent(ohci->card.device, PAGE_SIZE,
-				  buffer, buffer_bus);
+				  start, start_bus);
 		ar_context_add_page(ctx);
 	} else {
 		buffer = ctx->pointer;
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