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Bug 1221010

Summary: rhel6 as guest os lead to xorg process memory leak(spice+screensaver)
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: 马立克 <like.ma>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-qxlAssignee: Default Assignee for SPICE Bugs <rh-spice-bugs>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: SPICE QE bug list <spice-qe-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.8CC: cfergeau, dblechte, fziglio, laurent.deniel, pgrunt, rbalakri, tpelka, uril
Target Milestone: rc   
Target Release: 6.8   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-19.el6 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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: 1398296 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-05-10 19:49:54 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Blocks: 1398296    

Description 马立克 2015-05-13 06:23:52 UTC 
Description of problem:
In the virtualization environment such as RHEV or oVirt, use the RHEL6 as the guest os of virtual machine. The vm use spice protocol. In the RHEL6 guest os, enable the gnome-screensaver and use the classic "floating feet" as screensaver theme. Use spice client connect to the vm, and login the desktop. Then don't log out, just close the spice client. As time goes on, the memory size which xorg process used will increase continually.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Create a vm in the RHEV or oVirt environment, use spice protocol to connect the vm
2.Use spice client connect to the vm.
3.Install RHEL6.x in the vm(it should include desktop soteware package group and start up desktop as default)
4.Log in the desktop, make sure the screensaver has been enabled and the "floating feet" has been selected as the screensaver theme
5.Use top command to check the memory usage of xorg process
6.Don't log out the desktop, just close the spice client window
7.Several hours later, use spice client connect to the vm and log in with the same user.Use top command to check the memory usage of xorg process
8.Don't log out the desktop, just close the spice client window
9.More hours later, use spice client connect to the vm and log in with the same user.Use top command to check the memory usage of xorg process

Actual results:
As time goes on, the memory usage of xorg process will increase continually

Expected results:
the memory usage of xorg process should not increase to a very big size

Additional info:
If the user log out, the xorg process will be terminated. So after log out, memory leak can not be watched.
Comment 1 马立克 2015-05-13 06:27:00 UTC 
If use the VNC protocol, everything is fine, so maybe it's a bug of spice.
Comment 3 Uri Lublin 2015-05-13 07:52:14 UTC 
Moving to the X qxl driver.
This is probably a duplicate of bug 1192154 which has a fix
Comment 4 Pavel Grunt 2015-05-19 08:29:05 UTC 
It is happening with xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-17.el6.x86_64
Comment 5 Christophe Fergeau 2015-05-20 13:20:08 UTC 
Does not happen with spice+cirrus but happens with vnc+qxl.
Comment 6 Frediano Ziglio 2015-10-14 12:57:32 UTC 
As it happened with xorg-x11-drv-qxl-0.1.1-17.el6.x86_64 (as Pavel reported on 2015-05-19) looks like bug 1192154 fix did not solve the issue.
Comment 7 Frediano Ziglio 2015-10-20 12:15:49 UTC 
From valgrind, 

==32064== 504 (24 direct, 480 indirect) bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 305 of 385
==32064==    at 0x4A0729A: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)
==32064==    by 0x5906BF2: insert_image_info (qxl_image.c:106)
==32064==    by 0x5906BF2: qxl_image_create (qxl_image.c:251)
==32064==    by 0x5907E24: real_upload_box (qxl_surface.c:253)
==32064==    by 0x5907E24: qxl_upload_box (qxl_surface.c:283)
==32064==    by 0x5907FC2: qxl_surface_finish_access (qxl_surface.c:360)
==32064==    by 0x59219A3: uxa_check_poly_fill_rect (uxa-unaccel.c:314)
==32064==    by 0x5918378: uxa_poly_fill_rect (uxa-accel.c:868)
==32064==    by 0x52C57C: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x58B229: miPaintWindow (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x58B777: miWindowExposures (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x5A3947: miHandleValidateExposures (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x465305: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x467AE9: ConfigureWindow (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064== 

==32064== 4,680 (72 direct, 4,608 indirect) bytes in 3 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 355 of 385
==32064==    at 0x4A0729A: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)
==32064==    by 0x5906BF2: insert_image_info (qxl_image.c:106)
==32064==    by 0x5906BF2: qxl_image_create (qxl_image.c:251)
==32064==    by 0x5907E24: real_upload_box (qxl_surface.c:253)
==32064==    by 0x5907E24: qxl_upload_box (qxl_surface.c:283)
==32064==    by 0x5907FC2: qxl_surface_finish_access (qxl_surface.c:360)
==32064==    by 0x59219A3: uxa_check_poly_fill_rect (uxa-unaccel.c:314)
==32064==    by 0x5918378: uxa_poly_fill_rect (uxa-accel.c:868)
==32064==    by 0x52C57C: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x58B229: miPaintWindow (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x58B777: miWindowExposures (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x5A3947: miHandleValidateExposures (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x46627F: UnmapWindow (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x436FC9: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064== 

==32064== 16,015,872 (98,208 direct, 15,917,664 indirect) bytes in 4,092 blocks are definitely lost in loss record 385 of 385
==32064==    at 0x4A0729A: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:299)
==32064==    by 0x5906C5D: insert_image_info (qxl_image.c:106)
==32064==    by 0x5906C5D: qxl_image_create (qxl_image.c:251)
==32064==    by 0x5907147: qxl_surface_put_image (qxl_surface.c:798)
==32064==    by 0x59192AF: uxa_copy_n_to_n (uxa-accel.c:582)
==32064==    by 0x588A34: miCopyRegion (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x5890D9: miDoCopy (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x59187FD: uxa_copy_area (uxa-accel.c:642)
==32064==    by 0x52A467: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x435F18: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x438DD5: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x43C839: ??? (in /usr/bin/Xorg.bin)
==32064==    by 0x333A01ED5C: (below main) (in /lib64/libc-2.12.so)
==32064== 

(particularly last one)

Image cache leaks are fixed by http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-qxl/commit/?id=e4597f711d9e7586adf5fc58887bc3407869361d, see also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1248602
Comment 9 Frediano Ziglio 2016-02-02 09:19:40 UTC 
Errata RHBA-2015:21906-04
Comment 10 Frediano Ziglio 2016-02-02 10:36:08 UTC 
Building 

Created task: 10428399
Task info: http://brewweb.devel.redhat.com/brew/taskinfo?taskID=10428399
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-10 19:49:54 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-0761.html
Comment 15 Laurent Deniel 2016-11-24 11:45:11 UTC 
Why this memory leak (wrong image caching) has not been fixed in RHEL7 as well (as of RHEL7.3) ?
Comment 16 Christophe Fergeau 2016-11-24 12:10:08 UTC 
Ah looks like this was missed, created https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1398296