From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Nikhilesh Reddy <reddyn@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Umount failing due to a file leak on 3.18 Android
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 14:55:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160420055558.GB6031@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5716DAC3.4070404@codeaurora.org>
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 06:26:27PM -0700, Nikhilesh Reddy wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am looking into a bug that results in umount failures ( since there is a mount ref from the leaked file that is never freed on the mount )
>
> The issue seems to be a result of the following callstack
>
> 39.958104: <6> Call trace:
> 39.958108: <2> [<ffffffc0001baa58>] fput+0x1e0/0x1f8
> 39.958113: <2> [<ffffffc0001b6ce8>] filp_close+0xa0/0xb8
> 39.958119: <2> [<ffffffc0001d3ca8>] put_files_struct+0x88/0xf0
> 39.958123: <2> [<ffffffc000973c40>] binder_deferred_func+0x6a8/0x704
> 39.958129: <2> [<ffffffc0000ba32c>] process_one_work+0x238/0x3f0
> 39.958133: <2> [<ffffffc0000bb160>] worker_thread+0x2f8/0x418
>
> What seems to occur is that once in a while a file ( say a.txt) is fput in the above stack
> right as the task is being killed
>
> And then we see that the fput schedules a delayed_fput_work on this file
>
> But when the function delayed_fput() is actually run :
> the file that was put i.e this a.txt is not in the delayed_fput_list
>
> Any chance you can help me get to the bottom of this leak?
> I dont understand why the delayed_fput_list is missing the file.
3.18 is very old, can you duplicate this on 4.5 or newer?
thanks,
greg k-h
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-20 5:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-20 1:26 Nikhilesh Reddy
2016-04-20 1:29 ` Nikhilesh Reddy
2016-04-20 1:57 ` Nikhilesh Reddy
2016-04-20 5:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
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