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null_blk: Fix: memory release when memory_backed=1

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Memory/pages are not freed, when unloading nullblk driver.

Steps to reproduce issue
  1.free -h
        total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:    7.8Gi       260Mi       7.1Gi       3.0Mi       395Mi       7.3Gi
Swap:      0B          0B          0B
  2.modprobe null_blk memory_backed=1
  3.dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/nullb0 oflag=direct bs=1M count=1000
  4.modprobe -r null_blk
  5.free -h
        total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:    7.8Gi       1.2Gi       6.1Gi       3.0Mi       398Mi       6.3Gi
Swap:      0B          0B          0B

Signed-off-by: Anuj Gupta <anuj20.g@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Nitesh Shetty <nj.shetty@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605062354.24785-1-nj.shetty@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Nitesh Shetty 2023-06-05 11:53:53 +05:30 committed by Jens Axboe
parent ddad59331a
commit 8cfb98196c
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drivers/block/null_blk/main.c
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@ -2244,6 +2244,7 @@ static void null_destroy_dev(struct nullb *nullb)
struct nullb_device *dev = nullb->dev; struct nullb_device *dev = nullb->dev;
null_del_dev(nullb); null_del_dev(nullb);
null_free_device_storage(dev, false);
null_free_dev(dev); null_free_dev(dev);
} }