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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 08/12] x86/p2m: allocate CPU masks dynamically
At 15:18 +0100 on 20 Oct (1319123893), Tim Deegan wrote:
> At 15:07 +0100 on 20 Oct (1319123275), Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >>> On 20.10.11 at 16:00, Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > At 14:41 +0100 on 20 Oct (1319121707), Jan Beulich wrote:
> > >> --- 2011-10-18.orig/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c 2011-10-14
> > >> 09:47:46.000000000 +0200
> > >> +++ 2011-10-18/xen/arch/x86/mm/p2m.c 2011-10-18 16:45:49.000000000
> > >> +0200
> > >> @@ -81,7 +81,6 @@ static void p2m_initialise(struct domain
> > >> p2m->default_access = p2m_access_rwx;
> > >>
> > >> p2m->cr3 = CR3_EADDR;
> > >> - cpumask_clear(&p2m->p2m_dirty_cpumask);
> > >>
> > >> if ( hap_enabled(d) && (boot_cpu_data.x86_vendor ==
> > >> X86_VENDOR_INTEL) )
> > >> ept_p2m_init(p2m);
> > >> @@ -102,6 +101,8 @@ p2m_init_nestedp2m(struct domain *d)
> > >> d->arch.nested_p2m[i] = p2m = xzalloc(struct p2m_domain);
> > >> if (p2m == NULL)
> > >> return -ENOMEM;
> > >> + if ( !zalloc_cpumask_var(&p2m->dirty_cpumask) )
> > >> + return -ENOMEM;
> > >
> > > This leaks 'p2m'.
> >
> > If that's really true, then there is a leak already without that patch:
> > p2m_init() calls p2m_init_nestedp2m() without recovering from failure
> > in that function. It was my understanding that since failure here
> > ultimately leads to failure of domain construction, which I thought
> > (hoped - didn't verify) would result in p2m_final_teardown() getting
> > called.
>
> You're quite right; it will all get tidied up by p2m_final_teardown().
Except that arch_domain_create() doesn't actually call
paging_final_teardown() if paging_domain_init() fails, so that path
probably leaks quite badly -- at least the nested-paging stuff you
pointed out, and possibly other things. I'll have a look at it.
Cheers,
Tim.
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