Re: [PATCH] Missing bio_put following submit_bio_wait

From	Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] Missing bio_put following submit_bio_wait
Date	2016-06-07 18:50 +0200
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On 06/07/2016 10:32 AM, Shaun Tancheff wrote:
> submit_bio_wait() gives the caller an opportunity to examine
> struct bio and so expects the caller to issue the put_bio()
>
> This fixes a memory leak reported by a few people in 4.7-rc2
> kmemleak report after 9082e87bfbf8 ("block: remove struct bio_batch")
>
> Signed-off-by: Shaun Tancheff <shaun.tancheff@seagate.com>
> Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Tested-by: Larry Finger@lwfinger.net
> Tested-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>

Thanks, applied.

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Jens Axboe

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[PATCH] Fix reported kmemleak Shaun Tancheff <shaun@tancheff.com> - 2016-06-07 18:30 +0200
  [PATCH] Missing bio_put following submit_bio_wait Shaun Tancheff <shaun@tancheff.com> - 2016-06-07 18:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Missing bio_put following submit_bio_wait Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> - 2016-06-07 18:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] Missing bio_put following submit_bio_wait Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-06-07 18:50 +0200

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