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From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
To: Long Li <longli@exchange.microsoft.com>
Cc: "K . Y . Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	"James E . J . Bottomley" <JBottomley@odin.com>,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:31:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yq18ti1265c.fsf@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170829004359.28526-1-longli@exchange.microsoft.com> (Long Li's message of "Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:43:59 -0700")


Long,

> When storvsc is sending I/O to Hyper-v, it may allocate a bigger
> buffer descriptor for large data payload that can't fit into a
> pre-allocated buffer descriptor. This bigger buffer is freed on return
> path.
>
> If I/O request to Hyper-v fails due to ring buffer busy, the storvsc
> allocated buffer descriptor should also be freed.

Which kernel version is this patch aimed at?

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-30  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-29  0:43 Long Li
2017-08-30  1:31 ` Martin K. Petersen [this message]
2017-08-30  3:48   ` Long Li
2017-08-31  1:55     ` Martin K. Petersen
2017-08-31  2:28       ` Long Li
2017-08-30 15:11   ` Stephen Hemminger

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