tree d247f779ca728f9bc2753f78c027ba599626ed5c
parent ad07b4a89602be57ec738eff462237ba52abe965
author David Jeffery <dhjeffery@gmail.com> 1334160865 -0400
committer James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com> 1336635154 +0100

[SCSI] st: fix memory leak with >1MB tape I/O

There is a memory leak in the st driver when sending large enough reads or
writes using st's direct I/O path.  As part of mapping the application's
memory, a buffer to hold page pointers is allocated and the count of mapped
pages is stored in field do_dio.  A non-zero do_dio marks that direct I/O is
in use.

But do_dio is only 1 byte in size.  Mapping 256 4k pages overflows
do_dio and causes it to be set to 0, like direct I/O option was not
used.  When the I/O completes, the buffer to hold the page pointers is
not freed, and the page counts of the mapped pages are not reduced.
Every I/O of this size then leaks memory.

The size of do_dio needs to be increased to prevent it wrapping around.

Signed-off-by: David Jeffery <djeffery@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kai Mäkisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>