Re: [PATCH] FIX: Seg Fault in incremental if BBM log detected

[NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Wed, 16 Feb 2011 13:42:04 +0100 Krzysztof Wojcik
<krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com> wrote:

> Bug  detected for imsm metadata.
> Assembling of array using Incremental switch generate segmentation
> fault if BBM log is detected.
> Reason: missing return from Incremental_container if BBM is detected
> and unnecessary list=NULL assignment.
> This patch fix the problem and memory leak in this area.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wojcik <krzysztof.wojcik@intel.com>
> ---
>  Incremental.c |   14 +++++++++++++-
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Incremental.c b/Incremental.c
> index 889184f..26739fe 100644
> --- a/Incremental.c
> +++ b/Incremental.c
> @@ -1471,7 +1471,19 @@ static int Incremental_container(struct supertype *st, char *devname,
>  	if (list->array.state & (1<<MD_SB_BBM_ERRORS)) {
>  		fprintf(stderr, Name ": BBM log found in metadata. "
>  					"Cannot activate array(s).\n");
> -		list = NULL;
> +		/* free container data and exit */
> +		while (list) {
> +			struct mdinfo *d1 = list->next;
> +			struct mdinfo *disk = list->devs;
> +			while (disk) {
> +				struct mdinfo *d2 = disk->next;
> +				free(disk);
> +				disk = d2;
> +			}
> +			free(list);
> +			list = d1;
> +		}

That can all be replaced with
   sysfs_free(list);

> +		return 2;

With that change, I have applied this patch, thanks.

NeilBrown



>  	}
>  
>  	for (ra = list ; ra ; ra = ra->next) {