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ext4: Fix memory leak fix when mounting an ext4 filesystem

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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>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V 2009-07-17 09:01:04 -04:00 committed by Theodore Ts'o
parent ab86e5765d
commit 024eab4d5b
1 changed files with 0 additions and 19 deletions
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fs/ext4/mballoc.c
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@ -2571,13 +2571,11 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct super_block *sb)
{
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 super_block *sb)
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);