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@ 2013-08-09  5:25 Wang Shilong
  2013-08-09  5:25 ` [patch v2 2/2] Btrfs: allocate prelim_ref with a slab allocater Wang Shilong
  2013-08-09  8:26 ` [patch v2 1/2] Btrfs: fix possible memory leak in find_parent_nodes() Jan Schmidt
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Wang Shilong @ 2013-08-09  5:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-btrfs

The origin code dealt with 'ref' as following steps:
	|->list_del(&ref-list)
		|->some operations
	|->kfree(ref)

If operations failed, it would goto label 'out' without freeing this 'ref'.
and then memory leak would happen.Just move list_del() after kfree()
will fix the problem.

Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong <wangsl.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
V1->V2: add explanations to changelog
---
 fs/btrfs/backref.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/backref.c b/fs/btrfs/backref.c
index 68048d6..7b55c95 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/backref.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/backref.c
@@ -911,7 +911,6 @@ again:
 
 	while (!list_empty(&prefs)) {
 		ref = list_first_entry(&prefs, struct __prelim_ref, list);
-		list_del(&ref->list);
 		WARN_ON(ref->count < 0);
 		if (ref->count && ref->root_id && ref->parent == 0) {
 			/* no parent == root of tree */
@@ -956,6 +955,7 @@ again:
 				eie->next = ref->inode_list;
 			}
 		}
+		list_del(&ref->list);
 		kfree(ref);
 	}
 
-- 
1.8.0.1


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