[01/90] ext4: Fix memory leak fix when mounting an ext4 filesystem

Greg KH
2009-12-11T04:35:36Z

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2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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(cherry picked from commit 024eab4d5bf7e3168a2b71038b3e04e6b1f376ed)

The allocation of the ext4_group_info array was moved to a new
function ext4_mb_add_group_info() in commit 5f21b0e6 so that online
resize would use a common (and correct) codepath. Unfortunately, the
call to the new ext4_mb_add_group_info() function was added without
removing the code which originally allocated the array. This caused a
memory leak each time an ext4 filesystem was mounted.

The fix is simple; remove the code that did the original allocation,
since it is no longer needed.

Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 19 -------------------
1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2571,13 +2571,11 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct s
{
ext4_group_t ngroups = ext4_get_groups_count(sb);
ext4_group_t i;
- int metalen;
struct ext4_sb_info *sbi = EXT4_SB(sb);
struct ext4_super_block *es = sbi->s_es;
int num_meta_group_infos;
int num_meta_group_infos_max;
int array_size;
- struct ext4_group_info **meta_group_info;
struct ext4_group_desc *desc;

/* This is the number of blocks used by GDT */
@@ -2622,22 +2620,6 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct s
goto err_freesgi;
}
EXT4_I(sbi->s_buddy_cache)->i_disksize = 0;
-
- metalen = sizeof(*meta_group_info) << EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb);
- for (i = 0; i < num_meta_group_infos; i++) {
- if ((i + 1) == num_meta_group_infos)
- metalen = sizeof(*meta_group_info) *
- (ngroups -
- (i << EXT4_DESC_PER_BLOCK_BITS(sb)));
- meta_group_info = kmalloc(metalen, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (meta_group_info == NULL) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "EXT4-fs: can't allocate mem for a "
- "buddy group\n");
- goto err_freemeta;
- }
- sbi->s_group_info[i] = meta_group_info;
- }
-
for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
desc = ext4_get_group_desc(sb, i, NULL);
if (desc == NULL) {
@@ -2655,7 +2637,6 @@ err_freebuddy:
while (i-- > 0)
kfree(ext4_get_group_info(sb, i));
i = num_meta_group_infos;
-err_freemeta:
while (i-- > 0)
kfree(sbi->s_group_info[i]);
iput(sbi->s_buddy_cache);