Re: ext4: ext23 support leaks buffer pages

Ted Ts'o
2011-01-10T17:52:43Z

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 02:54:26AM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> I switched to CONFIG_EXT4_USE_FOR_EXT23=y with 2.6.37, but was
> then surprised by OOM kills: 2.6.36 and current are also bad.

Oops. Yeah, the problem was when ext4_forget() was moved out of
ext4_free_branches, we needed to replace it with a call to brelse().
Thanks for pointing this out.

Patch follows...

- Ted