Am Freitag, 16. Dezember 2016, 19:54:36 CET schrieb Herbert Xu:
Hi Herbert,
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:42:45PM +0100, Stephan Müller wrote:
> > + /*
> > + * The async operation may have processed only a subset of
> > + * the data that was initially received from the caller.
> > + * Thus, we only can release the data that a cipher operation
> > + * processed.
> > + */
> > + if (len < sg->length) {
> > + /* ensure that empty SGLs are not referenced any more */
> > + sreq->tsg = sg;
>
> Hmm if you change sreq->tsg how is the original tsg ever going to
> get freed?
You are right, this will introduce a memleak. But with the immediate freeing
of sreq->tsg in the current code, the AIO interface cannot support multiple
IOCBs.
Thus, the entire memory handling in the AIO case seems broken.
>
> > +
> > + /* advance the buffers to the unprocessed data */
> > + sg->length -= len;
> > + sg->offset += len;
> > + return;
> > + }
> > +
> > + len -= sg->length;
> > + put_page(page);
> > + }
> >
> > kfree(sreq->tsg);
>
> Thanks,
Ciao
Stephan
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