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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add missing brelse to xattr code.
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 20:08:36 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131112010836.GA30433@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131106154546.GA27255@redhat.com>

On Wed, Nov 06, 2013 at 10:45:46AM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> This code was recently patched to not leak memory on the retry path,
> but it seems we are also forgetting to brelse the bufferhead.
>    
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>

Thanks, I have this fix in my tree already.

Cheers,

					- Ted

commit dcb9917ba041866686fe152850364826c4622a36
Author: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date:   Thu Oct 31 23:00:24 2013 -0400

    ext4: avoid bh leak in retry path of ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()
    
    Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 03e9beb..1423c48 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1352,6 +1352,7 @@ retry:
 					new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
 					kfree(is); is = NULL;
 					kfree(bs); bs = NULL;
+					brelse(bh);
 					goto retry;
 				}
 				error = -1;


      reply	other threads:[~2013-11-12 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-06 15:45 [PATCH] Add missing brelse to xattr code Dave Jones
2013-11-12  1:08 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]

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