sbp_targ memory leak
Hidetoshi Shimokawa
simokawa at FreeBSD.ORG
Sun Dec 16 22:58:54 PST 2007
Thanks for the tracking of the problem.
Could you resend the patch in unified or context diff?
Thanks,
On 12/17/07, Sean Bruno <sbruno at miralink.com> wrote:
> In trying to understand and make sbp_targ functional, I've noted that
> the code seems to lose track of how many page tables it allocates for
> any give orbi. I had to add a lot of debugging code around the
> malloc/free's to find out what was going on, and I'm not sure what the
> code is supposed to do in this case.
>
> Please review the patch diff at --> http://consultcsg.com/RELENG_6.diff
>
> And the log at -->http://consultcsg.com/malloc_failure.txt
>
> This clearly shows that a new page table is being allocated for the same
> IO operation, which should be fine, but then a second malloc is
> attempted and stored in the same variable effectively leaking the data.
> I'm sure that this type of operation is supposed to be possible, but my
> interpretation of SBP-2 is suspect! :)
>
> Sean
>
>
>
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