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Commit 64f5e9cd authored by Sagi Grimberg's avatar Sagi Grimberg Committed by Christoph Hellwig
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nvmet: fix memory leak when removing namespaces and controllers concurrently



When removing a namespace, we add an NS_CHANGE async event, however if
the controller admin queue is removed after the event was added but not
yet processed, we won't free the aens, resulting in the below memory
leak [1].

Fix that by moving nvmet_async_event_free to the final controller
release after it is detached from subsys->ctrls ensuring no async
events are added, and modify it to simply remove all pending aens.

--
$ cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff888c1af2c000 (size 32):
  comm "nvmetcli", pid 5164, jiffies 4295220864 (age 6829.924s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    28 01 82 3b 8b 88 ff ff 28 01 82 3b 8b 88 ff ff  (..;....(..;....
    02 00 04 65 76 65 6e 74 5f 66 69 6c 65 00 00 00  ...event_file...
  backtrace:
    [<00000000217ae580>] nvmet_add_async_event+0x57/0x290 [nvmet]
    [<0000000012aa2ea9>] nvmet_ns_changed+0x206/0x300 [nvmet]
    [<00000000bb3fd52e>] nvmet_ns_disable+0x367/0x4f0 [nvmet]
    [<00000000e91ca9ec>] nvmet_ns_free+0x15/0x180 [nvmet]
    [<00000000a15deb52>] config_item_release+0xf1/0x1c0
    [<000000007e148432>] configfs_rmdir+0x555/0x7c0
    [<00000000f4506ea6>] vfs_rmdir+0x142/0x3c0
    [<0000000000acaaf0>] do_rmdir+0x2b2/0x340
    [<0000000034d1aa52>] do_syscall_64+0xa5/0x4d0
    [<00000000211f13bc>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6a/0xdf

Fixes: a07b4970 ("nvmet: add a generic NVMe target")
Reported-by: default avatarDavid Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Tested-by: default avatarDavid Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
parent b09160c3
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