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authorDavid Jeffery <dhjeffery@gmail.com>2012-04-11 20:14:25 +0400
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2012-05-10 11:32:34 +0400
commit7c018a901c3fef2af9d713ba849e8e52eb82dde1 (patch)
treed247f779ca728f9bc2753f78c027ba599626ed5c /drivers/scsi/st.h
parentad07b4a89602be57ec738eff462237ba52abe965 (diff)
downloadlinux-7c018a901c3fef2af9d713ba849e8e52eb82dde1.tar.xz
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/scsi/st.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/scsi/st.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/st.h b/drivers/scsi/st.h
index ea35632b986c..b548923785ed 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/st.h
+++ b/drivers/scsi/st.h
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ struct st_request {
/* The tape buffer descriptor. */
struct st_buffer {
unsigned char dma; /* DMA-able buffer */
- unsigned char do_dio; /* direct i/o set up? */
unsigned char cleared; /* internal buffer cleared after open? */
+ unsigned short do_dio; /* direct i/o set up? */
int buffer_size;
int buffer_blocks;
int buffer_bytes;