Re: Bio & Biovec-1 increasing cache size, never freed during disk IO

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On Wednesday March 1, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Neil.
> 
> unfortunately the patch does nothing, the problem persists.
> Tested with 2.6.16-rc5.
> (I've double checked if the patch was applied correctly)
> 
> Can I do anything to be of some more help?

Yes, try another patch. :-)  and tell me if you have CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
set... there was another use-after-free bug which CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB
would have made worse.

This patch should fix it all up.

Thanks again,
NeilBrown


Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[email protected]>

### Diffstat output
 ./drivers/md/raid1.c |   13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff ./drivers/md/raid1.c~current~ ./drivers/md/raid1.c
--- ./drivers/md/raid1.c~current~	2006-02-27 11:52:18.000000000 +1100
+++ ./drivers/md/raid1.c	2006-03-01 10:44:49.000000000 +1100
@@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ static int raid1_end_write_request(struc
 	r1bio_t * r1_bio = (r1bio_t *)(bio->bi_private);
 	int mirror, behind = test_bit(R1BIO_BehindIO, &r1_bio->state);
 	conf_t *conf = mddev_to_conf(r1_bio->mddev);
+	struct bio *to_put = NULL;
 
 	if (bio->bi_size)
 		return 1;
@@ -323,6 +324,7 @@ static int raid1_end_write_request(struc
 		 * this branch is our 'one mirror IO has finished' event handler:
 		 */
 		r1_bio->bios[mirror] = NULL;
+		to_put = bio;
 		if (!uptodate) {
 			md_error(r1_bio->mddev, conf->mirrors[mirror].rdev);
 			/* an I/O failed, we can't clear the bitmap */
@@ -375,7 +377,7 @@ static int raid1_end_write_request(struc
 			/* Don't dec_pending yet, we want to hold
 			 * the reference over the retry
 			 */
-			return 0;
+			goto out;
 		}
 		if (test_bit(R1BIO_BehindIO, &r1_bio->state)) {
 			/* free extra copy of the data pages */
@@ -392,10 +394,11 @@ static int raid1_end_write_request(struc
 		raid_end_bio_io(r1_bio);
 	}
 
-	if (r1_bio->bios[mirror]==NULL)
-		bio_put(bio);
-
 	rdev_dec_pending(conf->mirrors[mirror].rdev, conf->mddev);
+ out:
+	if (to_put)
+		bio_put(to_put);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -857,7 +860,7 @@ static int make_request(request_queue_t 
 	atomic_set(&r1_bio->remaining, 0);
 	atomic_set(&r1_bio->behind_remaining, 0);
 
-	do_barriers = bio->bi_rw & BIO_RW_BARRIER;
+	do_barriers = bio_barrier(bio);
 	if (do_barriers)
 		set_bit(R1BIO_Barrier, &r1_bio->state);
 
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