From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Subject: [RFC/PATCH] ext4: Fix the memory leak and buffer head leak with respect to ext4_ext_path Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:00:51 +0530 Message-ID: <1202985052-15694-1-git-send-email-aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, "Aneesh Kumar K.V" To: tytso@mit.edu, cmm@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from E23SMTP05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.18.174]:46477 "EHLO e23smtp05.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753225AbYBNKbc (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:31:32 -0500 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [202.81.18.234]) by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1EAVGvI013839 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:31:16 +1100 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (d23av01.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.96]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.7) with ESMTP id m1EAVTRc3797082 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:31:29 +1100 Received: from d23av01.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av01.au.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id m1EAVTWZ006000 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:31:29 +1100 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The path variable returned via ext4_ext_find_extent is a kmalloc variable and need to be freeded. It also contain refrences to buffer_head which need to be dropped. Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 6 +++--- fs/ext4/migrate.c | 5 +++++ include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index e856f66..995ac16 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ static void ext4_ext_show_leaf(struct inode *inode, struct ext4_ext_path *path) #define ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode,path) #endif -static void ext4_ext_drop_refs(struct ext4_ext_path *path) +void ext4_ext_drop_refs(struct ext4_ext_path *path) { int depth = path->p_depth; int i; @@ -2200,10 +2200,10 @@ static int ext4_ext_convert_to_initialized(handle_t *handle, newdepth = ext_depth(inode); if (newdepth != depth) { depth = newdepth; - path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, iblock, NULL); + ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); + path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, iblock, path); if (IS_ERR(path)) { err = PTR_ERR(path); - path = NULL; goto out; } eh = path[depth].p_hdr; diff --git a/fs/ext4/migrate.c b/fs/ext4/migrate.c index 8c6c685..5c1e27d 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/migrate.c +++ b/fs/ext4/migrate.c @@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ static int finish_range(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, if (IS_ERR(path)) { retval = PTR_ERR(path); + path = NULL; goto err_out; } @@ -74,6 +75,10 @@ static int finish_range(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, } retval = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, path, &newext); err_out: + if (path) { + ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); + kfree(path); + } lb->first_pblock = 0; return retval; } diff --git a/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h b/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h index 697da4b..1285c58 100644 --- a/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h +++ b/include/linux/ext4_fs_extents.h @@ -227,5 +227,6 @@ extern int ext4_ext_search_left(struct inode *, struct ext4_ext_path *, ext4_lblk_t *, ext4_fsblk_t *); extern int ext4_ext_search_right(struct inode *, struct ext4_ext_path *, ext4_lblk_t *, ext4_fsblk_t *); +extern void ext4_ext_drop_refs(struct ext4_ext_path *); #endif /* _LINUX_EXT4_EXTENTS */ -- 1.5.4.1.97.g40aab-dirty