Possible Bug

[newell.roger@gmail.com (Roger H Newell)]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 2:12 PM, nick <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 2016-03-31 12:30 PM, Carlo Caione wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Roger H Newell <newell.roger@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:18 PM, nick <xerofoify@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 2016-03-31 08:34 AM, Roger H Newell wrote:
>>>> In the fs/file_table.c file as from the root directory of your kernel tree change in the function,
>>>> get_empty_flip change these lines:
>>>>          if (unlikely(error)) {
>>>>                  file_free(f);
>>>>                  return ERR_PTR(error);
>>>>          }
>>>> to:
>>>>         if (unlikely(error))
>>>>                 return ERR_PTR(error);
>>>> and tell me if that fixes your issue.
>>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>> Seems to have worked, the error is is gone and I can mount the USB device.
>>
>> That's not a fix, you are leaking f.
>>
> Good catch seems:
> static inline void file_free(struct file *f)
> {
>          percpu_counter_dec(&nr_files);
>          if (f)
>                 call_rcu(&f->f_u.fu_rcuhead, file_free_rcu);
> }
> Roger can you tell this and see if it fixes your issue. The file
> is fs/file_table.c from the root of the kernel directory.
> Thanks,
> Nick

I reverted the previous change, and applied the if(f) test in
file_free. There are no error messages in dmseg and I can mount the
USB device.