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* [Cluster-devel] [PATCH] gfs2: fix file_system_type leak on gfs2meta mount
@ 2008-02-25 17:58 Christoph Hellwig
  2008-02-26  3:27 ` [Cluster-devel] " Steven Whitehouse
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2008-02-25 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: cluster-devel.redhat.com


get_gfs2_sb does a get_fs_type without doing a put_filesystem and
thus leaking a file_system_type reference everytime it's called.

Just use gfs2_fs_type directly instead of doing the lookup and thus
fix the problem.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

Index: linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c	2008-02-25 18:53:11.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c	2008-02-25 18:53:36.000000000 +0100
@@ -874,7 +874,6 @@ static struct super_block* get_gfs2_sb(c
 {
 	struct kstat stat;
 	struct nameidata nd;
-	struct file_system_type *fstype;
 	struct super_block *sb = NULL, *s;
 	int error;
 
@@ -886,8 +885,7 @@ static struct super_block* get_gfs2_sb(c
 	}
 	error = vfs_getattr(nd.path.mnt, nd.path.dentry, &stat);
 
-	fstype = get_fs_type("gfs2");
-	list_for_each_entry(s, &fstype->fs_supers, s_instances) {
+	list_for_each_entry(s, &gfs2_fs_type.fs_supers, s_instances) {
 		if ((S_ISBLK(stat.mode) && s->s_dev == stat.rdev) ||
 		    (S_ISDIR(stat.mode) &&
 		     s == nd.path.dentry->d_inode->i_sb)) {



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