On Wednesday, 7 June 2017 11:52:34 PM AEST Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:36:58PM +1000, Steven Haigh wrote: > > On Friday, 19 May 2017 1:28:46 AM AEST Juergen Gross wrote: > > > Destroying a Xen guest domain while it was doing I/Os via xen-blkback > > > leaked several resources, including references of the guest's memory > > > pages. > > > > > > This patch series addresses those leaks by correcting usage of > > > reference counts and the sequence when to free which resource. > > > > > > The series applies on top of commit 2d4456c73a487abe ("block: > > > xen-blkback: add null check to avoid null pointer dereference") in > > > Jens Axboe's tree kernel/git/axboe/linux-block.git > > > > > > V2: changed flag to type bool in patch 1 (Dietmar Hahn) > > > > > > Juergen Gross (3): > > > xen/blkback: fix disconnect while I/Os in flight > > > xen/blkback: don't free be structure too early > > > xen/blkback: don't use xen_blkif_get() in xen-blkback kthread > > > > > > drivers/block/xen-blkback/blkback.c | 3 --- > > > drivers/block/xen-blkback/common.h | 1 + > > > drivers/block/xen-blkback/xenbus.c | 15 ++++++++------- > > > 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > > > Just wanted to give this a bit of a prod. > > <ugh> Ouch! > > > Is there any plans in having this hit the kernel.org kernels? > > Yes. > > > My testing was purely on kernel 4.9 branch - but it doesn't look like this > > has shown up there yet? > > Correct. I am thinking to send these to Jens around June 20th or so.
Ok, all understood. Thanks for the clarifications. At the moment, I'm just including them in my kernel builds - then expecting them to fail at one point in the future when the patch fails due to upstreaming. I'll just keep doing this. -- Steven Haigh 📧 net...@crc.id.au 💻 http://www.crc.id.au 📞 +61 (3) 9001 6090 📱 0412 935 897
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