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ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_insert_range()

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Running xfstests generic/013 with kmemleak gives the following:

unreferenced object 0xffff8801d3d27de0 (size 96):
  comm "fsstress", pid 4941, jiffies 4294860168 (age 53.485s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff818eaaf3>] kmemleak_alloc+0x23/0x40
    [<ffffffff81179805>] __kmalloc+0xf5/0x1d0
    [<ffffffff8122ef5c>] ext4_find_extent+0x1ec/0x2f0
    [<ffffffff8123530c>] ext4_insert_range+0x34c/0x4a0
    [<ffffffff81235942>] ext4_fallocate+0x4e2/0x8b0
    [<ffffffff81181334>] vfs_fallocate+0x134/0x210
    [<ffffffff8118203f>] SyS_fallocate+0x3f/0x60
    [<ffffffff818efa9b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Problem seems mitigated by dropping refs and freeing path
when there's no path[depth].p_ext

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Fabian Frederick 2016-09-15 11:39:52 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent 4e800c0359
commit edf15aa180
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fs/ext4/extents.c
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@ -5734,6 +5734,9 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t offset, loff_t len)
up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem);
goto out_stop;
}
} else {
ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
kfree(path);
}
ret = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, offset_lblk,