Kernel 6.6 have memory leak on nfs about linux

[llevet]

After 10 days when the memory is comming full, the pi restarts by itself after a OOM.
You can find more details starting here :
https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=361116&start=75#p2202411
This problem doesn't exist on previous official 6.1 kernel.

[popcornmix]

There are no nfs related downstream commits to the kernel, so this is likely to be an upstream kernel issue.
We don't have any special knowledge of kernel nfs code, so this may be tricky to track down.

Some possible approaches:
It seems likely that the leak may be present other platforms, so trying to find similar reports may be useful.
Reporting it to upstream kernel devs may be useful.
Any nfs related commits present in 6.6 but not present in 6.1 could be reverted in test builds to try to track it down.
Testing 6.2, 6.3, 6.4 and 6.5 kernels would help narrow it down further.

[llevet]

Hum ...
Seem to be detected here :
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218671

[popcornmix]

And it's been backported to 6.6.26. I've just bumped rpi-update to that,
so if you run sudo rpi-update you should have the fix.

[llevet]

Ok, I just updated my pi
Linux pistorage 6.6.26-v8-16k+ #1754 SMP PREEMPT Thu Apr 11 14:51:20 BST 2024 aarch64 GNU/Linux

I will come back to you to give you the result.

[llevet]

The memory leak is gone. Tested during 16 hours and memory used is stable.
When did you think it will push on official rpi stable kernel ?
Thanks a lot.

[popcornmix]

When did you think it will push on official rpi stable kernel ?

I'll flag it up as an important bug fix, and let you know when.