From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Fix memory leak in ext4_init_new_dir Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 10:06:39 +0000 Message-ID: <20130111100639.GA3302@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Cc: Tao Ma , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Theodore Ts'o Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:53870 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754350Ab3AKKGo (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 05:06:44 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Commit a774f9c2 "ext4: make ext4_init_dot_dotdot for inline dir usage" is a preparation cleanup for later ext4 patches but there was a snag when moving code to the newly created ext4_init_new_dir() function. ext4_bread() is called twice but brelse() is only called one leading to a memory leak. The user-visible effect is that after a compile-orientated benchmark 0% of memory could be allocated as transparent huge pages. This patch deletes the extra call and after it is applied, 76% of memory could be allocated after the same test. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c index 8990165..d068885 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2368,7 +2368,6 @@ static int ext4_init_new_dir(handle_t *handle, struct inode *dir, } inode->i_size = EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = blocksize; - dir_block = ext4_bread(handle, inode, 0, 1, &err); if (!(dir_block = ext4_bread(handle, inode, 0, 1, &err))) { if (!err) { err = -EIO;