On Fri, Jun 03, 2016 at 12:08:38PM -0700, Liu Bo wrote: > eb->io_pages is set in read_extent_buffer_pages(). > > In case of readpage failure, for pages that have been added to bio, > it calls bio_endio and later readpage_io_failed_hook() does the work. > > When this eb's page (couldn't be the 1st page) fails to add itself to bio > due to failure in merge_bio(), it cannot decrease eb->io_pages via bio_endio, > and ends up with a memory leak eventually. > > This lets __do_readpage propagate errors to callers and adds the > 'atomic_dec(&eb->io_pages)'. > > Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <bo.li....@oracle.com>
I'm adding this to for-next, but a review is needed if this is supposed to go to 4.7. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
