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md/raid10: fix memory leak when reshaping a RAID10.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Mon, 18 Aug 2014 03:56:38 +0000 (13:56 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:04:00 +0000 (09:04 -0700)
commit1075d2bdf6334b8373c00978403a69a4d9fdb883
tree51adeb847892f8d10858bdd1e3b16da248f91879
parent318a3d59cea8f6790a364f4f8ab24a7aa9514ada
md/raid10: fix memory leak when reshaping a RAID10.

commit ce0b0a46955d1bb389684a2605dbcaa990ba0154 upstream.

raid10 reshape clears unwanted bits from a bio->bi_flags using
a method which, while clumsy, worked until 3.10 when BIO_OWNS_VEC
was added.
Since then it clears that bit but shouldn't.  This results in a
memory leak.

So change to used the approved method of clearing unwanted bits.

As this causes a memory leak which can consume all of memory
the fix is suitable for -stable.

Fixes: a38352e0ac02dbbd4fa464dc22d1352b5fbd06fd
Reported-by: mdraid.pkoch@dfgh.net (Peter Koch)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/raid10.c