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Re: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy

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From "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Subject Re: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy
Date Wed, 30 Aug 2017 03:40:01 +0200
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Long,

> When storvsc is sending I/O to Hyper-v, it may allocate a bigger
> buffer descriptor for large data payload that can't fit into a
> pre-allocated buffer descriptor. This bigger buffer is freed on return
> path.
>
> If I/O request to Hyper-v fails due to ring buffer busy, the storvsc
> allocated buffer descriptor should also be freed.

Which kernel version is this patch aimed at?

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Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering

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[PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy Long Li <longli@exchange.microsoft.com> - 2017-08-29 02:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2017-08-30 03:40 +0200
    RE: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy Long Li <longli@microsoft.com> - 2017-08-30 05:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com> - 2017-08-31 04:00 +0200
        RE: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy Long Li <longli@microsoft.com> - 2017-08-31 04:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> - 2017-08-30 17:20 +0200

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