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Commit daf87e95 authored by Qu Wenruo's avatar Qu Wenruo Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: fix the memory leak caused in lzo_compress_pages()


[BUG]
Fstests generic/027 is pretty easy to trigger a slow but steady memory
leak if run with "-o compress=lzo" mount option.

Normally one single run of generic/027 is enough to eat up at least 4G ram.

[CAUSE]
In commit d4088803 ("btrfs: subpage: make lzo_compress_pages()
compatible") we changed how @page_in is released.

But that refactoring makes @page_in only released after all pages being
compressed.

This leaves error path not releasing @page_in. And by "error path"
things like incompressible data will also be treated as an error
(-E2BIG).

Thus it can cause a memory leak if even nothing wrong happened.

[FIX]
Add check under @out label to release @page_in when needed, so when we
hit any error, the input page is properly released.

Reported-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Fixes: d4088803 ("btrfs: subpage: make lzo_compress_pages() compatible")
Reviewed-and-tested-by: default avatarJosef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarQu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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