[BACKPORT][v1.6.2][BUG] share-manager-pvc appears to be leaking memory about longhorn HOT 3 CLOSED

The issue can be reproduced by

• Create a RWX volume.
• Create a workload A using the volume. The running workload A ensures the share-manager pod keeps running.
• Repeatedly attach and detach workload B using the volume. The memory usage (cat /proc/<PID of nfs-ganesha>/status | grep VmRSS) of the nfs-ganesha increases over time.

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Pre Ready-For-Testing Checklist

• Where is the reproduce steps/test steps documented?
  The reproduce steps/test steps are at:

1. Create a 3 node cluster
2. Create first workload with a RWX volume by https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/master/examples/rwx/rwx-nginx-deployment.yaml
3. Create second workload with the RWX volume.
4. Scale down the second workload and scale up repeatedly 100 times
5. Find the PID of the nfs-ganesha in the share-manager pod by ps aux
6. Observe the VmRSS of nfs-ganesha in the share-manager pod by cat /proc/<nfs-ganesha PID>/status | grep VmRSS
7. VmRSS in LH v1.6.1 is significantly larger than the value after applying the fix.

• Does the PR include the explanation for the fix or the feature?

• Have the backend code been merged (Manager, Engine, Instance Manager, BackupStore etc) (including backport-needed/*)?
  The PR is at

longhorn/nfs-ganesha#13
longhorn/longhorn-share-manager#204

• Which areas/issues this PR might have potential impacts on?
  Area: RWX volume, memory leak, upstream
  Issues

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Verified on v1.6.x-head 20240507

• longhorn v1.6.x-head 46706be
• nfs-ganesha longhorn-ganesha-v5 longhorn/nfs-ganesha@996a59c
• longhorn-share-manager v1.6.x-head longhorn/longhorn-share-manager@510b21a

The test steps
#8394 (comment)

1. Create first workload with a RWX volume by https://github.com/longhorn/longhorn/blob/master/examples/rwx/rwx-nginx-deployment.yaml
2. Scale up the replicas to 3.
3. Check if 3 workloads are in the "Running" state.
4. Scale down the replicas to 1.
5. Check if one workload are in the "Running" state.
   We can test steps 2-5 using the following shell script.

#!/bin/bash

# Define the deployment name
DEPLOYMENT_NAME="rwx-test"
KUBECONFIF="/home/ryao/Desktop/note/longhorn-tool/ryao-161.yaml"

for ((i=1; i<=100; i++)); do
    # Scale deployment to 10 replicas
    kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF scale deployment $DEPLOYMENT_NAME --replicas=3

    # Wait for the deployment to have 3 ready replicas
    until [[ "$(kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF get deployment $DEPLOYMENT_NAME -o=jsonpath='{.status.readyReplicas}')" == "3" ]]; do
        ready_replicas=$(kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF get deployment $DEPLOYMENT_NAME -o=jsonpath='{.status.readyReplicas}')
        echo "Iteration #$i: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME has $ready_replicas ready replicas"
        sleep 1
    done

    # Check if all pods are in the "Running" state
    while [[ $(kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF get pods -l=app=$DEPLOYMENT_NAME -o=jsonpath='{.items[*].status.phase}') != "Running Running Running" ]]; do
        echo "Not all pods are in the 'Running' state. Waiting..."
        sleep 5
    done

    # Scale deployment down to 1 replicas
    kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF scale deployment $DEPLOYMENT_NAME --replicas=1

    # Wait for the deployment to have 1 ready replicas
    until [[ "$(kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF get deployment $DEPLOYMENT_NAME -o=jsonpath='{.status.readyReplicas}')" == "1" ]]; do
        ready_replicas=$(kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF get deployment $DEPLOYMENT_NAME -o=jsonpath='{.status.readyReplicas}')
        echo "Iteration #$i: $DEPLOYMENT_NAME has $ready_replicas ready replicas"
        sleep 1
    done

    # Check if all pods are in the "Running" state
    while [[ $(kubectl --kubeconfig=$KUBECONFIF get pods -l=app=$DEPLOYMENT_NAME -o=jsonpath='{.items[*].status.phase}') != "Running" ]]; do
        echo "Not all pods are in the 'Running' state. Waiting..."
        sleep 5
    done
done

6. Find the PID of the nfs-ganesha in the share-manager pod by ps aux
7. Observe the VmRSS of nfs-ganesha in the share-manager pod by cat /proc/<nfs-ganesha PID>/status | grep VmRSS

Result Passed

1. We were also able to reproduce this issue on v1.6.1.
2. After executing the script, the output for v1.6.1 is as follows:

Every 2.0s: cat /proc/29/status | grep VmRSS                     share-manager-pvc-119d403e-ae17-4f4f-aa7f-06e7bf40fca2: Tue May  7 09:54:38 2024

VmRSS:     47192 kB

For the v1.6.x-head

Every 2.0s: cat /proc/29/status | grep VmRSS                    share-manager-pvc-f22c2fdf-330e-4c22-aea2-45a10c570cbf: Tue May  7 10:09:11 2024

VmRSS:     41604 kB

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