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Roman Pen committed 39a169b62b4
block: fix module reference leak on put_disk() call for cgroups throttle get_disk(),get_gendisk() calls have non explicit side effect: they increase the reference on the disk owner module. The following is the correct sequence how to get a disk reference and to put it: disk = get_gendisk(...); /* use disk */ owner = disk->fops->owner; put_disk(disk); module_put(owner); fs/block_dev.c is aware of this required module_put() call, but f.e. blkg_conf_finish(), which is located in block/blk-cgroup.c, does not put a module reference. To see a leakage in action cgroups throttle config can be used. In the following script I'm removing throttle for /dev/ram0 (actually this is NOP, because throttle was never set for this device): # lsmod | grep brd brd 5175 0 # i=100; while [ $i -gt 0 ]; do echo "1:0 0" > \ /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio/blkio.throttle.read_bps_device; i=$(($i - 1)); \ done # lsmod | grep brd brd 5175 100 Now brd module has 100 references. The issue is fixed by calling module_put() just right away put_disk(). Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com> Cc: Gi-Oh Kim <gi-oh.kim@profitbricks.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>