Patch "dm thin: fix a memory leak when passing discard bio down" has been added to the 4.10-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

dm thin: fix a memory leak when passing discard bio down

to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
dm-thin-fix-a-memory-leak-when-passing-discard-bio-down.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dennis Yang <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 15:27:06 +0800
Subject: dm thin: fix a memory leak when passing discard bio down

From: Dennis Yang <[email protected]>

commit 948f581a53b704b984aa20df009f0a2b4cf7f907 upstream.

dm-thin does not free the discard_parent bio after all chained sub bios finished. The following kmemleak report could be observed after pool with discard_passdown option processes discard bios in linux v4.11-rc7. To fix this, we drop the discard_parent bio reference when its endio (passdown_endio) called.

unreferenced object 0xffff8803d6b29700 (size 256):
comm "kworker/u8:0", pid 30349, jiffies 4379504020 (age 143002.776s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):

    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    01 00 00 00 00 00 00 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff81a5efd9>] kmemleak_alloc+0x49/0xa0
    [<ffffffff8114ec34>] kmem_cache_alloc+0xb4/0x100
    [<ffffffff8110eec0>] mempool_alloc_slab+0x10/0x20
    [<ffffffff8110efa5>] mempool_alloc+0x55/0x150
    [<ffffffff81374939>] bio_alloc_bioset+0xb9/0x260
    [<ffffffffa018fd20>] process_prepared_discard_passdown_pt1+0x40/0x1c0 [dm_thin_pool]
    [<ffffffffa018b409>] break_up_discard_bio+0x1a9/0x200 [dm_thin_pool]
    [<ffffffffa018b484>] process_discard_cell_passdown+0x24/0x40 [dm_thin_pool]
    [<ffffffffa018b24d>] process_discard_bio+0xdd/0xf0 [dm_thin_pool]
    [<ffffffffa018ecf6>] do_worker+0xa76/0xd50 [dm_thin_pool]
    [<ffffffff81086239>] process_one_work+0x139/0x370
    [<ffffffff810867b1>] worker_thread+0x61/0x450
    [<ffffffff8108b316>] kthread+0xd6/0xf0
    [<ffffffff81a6cd1f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

---
 drivers/md/dm-thin.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

@@ -1070,6 +1070,7 @@ static void passdown_endio(struct bio *b
 	 * to unmap (we ignore err).
 	 */
 	queue_passdown_pt2(bio->bi_private);
+	bio_put(bio);
 }
 
 static void process_prepared_discard_passdown_pt1(struct dm_thin_new_mapping *m)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.10/dm-thin-fix-a-memory-leak-when-passing-discard-bio-down.patch