From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: [PATCH] debugfs inode leak
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2006 10:26:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060608082638.GY5207@suse.de> (raw)
Hi,
Looking at the reiser4 crash, I found a leak in debugfs. In
debugfs_mknod(), we create the inode before checking if the dentry
already has one attached. We don't free it if that is the case.
These bugs happen quite often, I'm starting to think we should disallow
such coding in CodingStyle.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
index 85d166c..b55b4ea 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
@@ -67,12 +67,13 @@ static struct inode *debugfs_get_inode(s
static int debugfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
int mode, dev_t dev)
{
- struct inode *inode = debugfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, mode, dev);
+ struct inode *inode;
int error = -EPERM;
if (dentry->d_inode)
return -EEXIST;
+ inode = debugfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, mode, dev);
if (inode) {
d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
dget(dentry);
--
Jens Axboe
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