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From: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
To: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <bfields@fieldses.org>,
	<viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locks: fix fasync_struct memory leak in lease upgrade/downgrade handling
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 07:57:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54F7FE45.5000100@bmw-carit.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1425513974-27153-1-git-send-email-jeff.layton@primarydata.com>

Hi Jeff,

On 03/05/2015 01:06 AM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Commit 8634b51f6ca2 (locks: convert lease handling to file_lock_context)
> introduced a regression in the handling of lease upgrade/downgrades.
> 
> In the event that we already have a lease on a file and are going to
> either upgrade or downgrade it, we skip doing any list insertion or
> deletion and skip to re-calling lm_setup on the existing lease.
> 
> As of commit 8634b51f6ca2 however, we end up calling lm_setup on the
> lease that was passed in, instead of on the existing lease. This causes
> us to leak the fasync_struct that was allocated in the event that there
> was not already an existing one (as it always appeared that there
> wasn't one).
> 
> Fixes: 8634b51f6ca2 (locks: convert lease handling to file_lock_context)

Yes, that fixes the problem. Thanks!

> Reported-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@primarydata.com>

Tested-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>


cheers,
daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-05  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-05  0:06 [PATCH] locks: fix fasync_struct memory leak in lease upgrade/downgrade handling Jeff Layton
2015-03-05  6:57 ` Daniel Wagner [this message]
2015-03-05 11:50   ` Jeff Layton

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