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From: jing zhang <zj.barak@gmail.com>
To: linux-ext4 <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>,
	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: memory leakage in ext4_mb_free_blocks()
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:55:55 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ac8f92701003240655i32c5cfesf95651b96b812c66@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

From: Jing Zhang <zj.barak@gmail.com>

Date: Wed Mar 24 21:54:22     2010

There is memory leakage in ext4_mb_free_blocks(), if error, double
free of blocks, occurs in ext4_mb_free_metadata().

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jing Zhang <zj.barak@gmail.com>

---

--- linux-2.6.32/fs/ext4/mballoc.c	2009-12-03 11:51:22.000000000 +0800
+++ ext4_mm_leak/mballoc8.c	2010-03-24 21:46:50.000000000 +0800
@@ -4419,7 +4419,8 @@ ext4_mb_free_metadata(handle_t *handle,
 	spin_lock(&sbi->s_md_lock);
 	list_add(&new_entry->list, &handle->h_transaction->t_private_list);
 	spin_unlock(&sbi->s_md_lock);
-	return 0;
+	/* info the caller new_entry is used */
+	return 1;
 }

 /*
@@ -4547,7 +4548,8 @@ do_more:

 		ext4_lock_group(sb, block_group);
 		mb_clear_bits(bitmap_bh->b_data, bit, count);
-		ext4_mb_free_metadata(handle, &e4b, new_entry);
+		if (0 == ext4_mb_free_metadata(handle, &e4b, new_entry))
+			kmem_cache_free(ext4_free_ext_cachep, new_entry);
 	} else {
 		/* need to update group_info->bb_free and bitmap
 		 * with group lock held. generate_buddy look at

             reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-24 13:55 jing zhang [this message]
2010-03-24 17:01 ` [PATCH] ext4: memory leakage in ext4_mb_free_blocks() Aneesh Kumar K. V
2010-03-25 14:09   ` jing zhang

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