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* [patch] ext4: add a kfree() on error i add_new_gdb()
@ 2011-07-30  8:25 Dan Carpenter
  2011-07-30 16:59 ` Ted Ts'o
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2011-07-30  8:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Theodore Ts'o
  Cc: Andreas Dilger, open list:EXT4 FILE SYSTEM, kernel-janitors

We added some more error handling in b40971426a "ext4: add error
checking to calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()".  But we need to
call kfree() as well to avoid a memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c
index 6e3327d..71085df 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
@@ -517,6 +517,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	return err;
 
 exit_inode:
+	kfree(n_group_desc);
 	/* ext4_handle_release_buffer(handle, iloc.bh); */
 	brelse(iloc.bh);
 exit_dindj:

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