kern/144330: [nfs] mbuf leakage in nfsd with zfs

Rick Macklem rmacklem at uoguelph.ca
Tue Mar 23 13:21:42 UTC 2010



On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, Daniel Braniss wrote:

>> I only have a FreeBSD client at this point, and it doesn't cause the
>> leak for nfsv3,udp for me here.
> my client is also FreeBSD 8.0, strange
>

I was already using the patch below when I tested and couldn't see it,
so I guess it now appears that the patch works.

>>
>> Doug Rabson pointed out that there would be a leak for the "default:"
>> case too, although didn't know if that would occur in practice.
> it does! :-)
>
>>
>> So, maybe you could test this variant of the patch (just in case that
>> was the slow leak...):
>> --- rpc/svc.c.sav	2010-03-21 18:46:20.000000000 -0400
>> +++ rpc/svc.c	2010-03-22 19:00:17.000000000 -0400
>> @@ -819,9 +819,11 @@
>>   					free(r->rq_addr, M_SONAME);
>>   					r->rq_addr = NULL;
>>   				}
>> +				m_freem(args);
>>   				goto call_done;
>>
>>   			default:
>> +				m_freem(args);
>>   				goto call_done;
>>   			}
>>   		}
> that plugged it!
> see
> 	ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/mbuf-leak/store-02+++.ps

Good work with the testing. I'll get it committed and put it up on the
nfs patches page I have under http://people.freebsd.org/~rmacklem

> thanks to you for taking time off of your retirement :-)
>
I plan on doing quite a bit of FreeBSD/NFS stuff during it, rick



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