[pve-devel] applied-series: [PATCH kernel 1/2] add fix for CIFS client memory leak

[Thomas Lamprecht]

On 10/07/2024 13:37, Fiona Ebner wrote:
> As reported in the community forum [0], there currently is a memory
> leak in the CIFS client code. Reproduced by running a backup with CIFS
> target storage:
> 
>> while true; do vzdump 101 --storage cifs --prune-backups keep-last=1; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches; done
> 
> A fix was found on the kernel mailing list tagged for stable v6.6+
> and it does solve the issue, but is not yet included in any (stable)
> kernels.
> 
> [0]: https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/147603/post-682388
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner at proxmox.com>
> ---
>  ...ix-pagecache-leak-when-do-writepages.patch | 108 ++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 108 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 patches/kernel/0018-cifs-fix-pagecache-leak-when-do-writepages.patch
> 
>

applied both patches, thanks!