Re: [PATCH 1/3] block cleanups: Fix iosched module refcount leak

On Tue, Sep 27 2005, Nate Diller wrote:
> If the requested I/O scheduler is already in place, elevator_switch simply 
> leaves the queue alone, and returns.  However, it forgets to call 
> elevator_put, so
> 
> 'echo [current_sched] > /sys/block/[dev]/queue/scheduler'
> 
> will leak a reference, causing the current_sched module to be permanently 
> pinned in memory.
> 
> This patchset is against 2.6.14-rc2-mm1, but should apply to anything 
> recent.

Thanks, looks good.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>

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