Re: [PATCH] unionfs: fix memory leak

[Erez Zadok]

In message <Pine.LNX.4.64.0806290105430.20280@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Hugh Dickins writes:
> Unionfs has slowly been leaking memory: although many places do explicitly
> free the dentry's lower_paths array (and I've not changed those, in case
> the ordering is important), not all do - and adding a WARN_ON didn't seem
> to finger any particular culprit.  So free_dentry_private_data needs to
> kfree lower_paths (other freeers are good about setting it to NULL).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Should follow mmotm's git-unionfs-fixup.patch
> 
>  fs/unionfs/lookup.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>  
> --- mmotm/fs/unionfs/lookup.c	2008-06-27 13:39:18.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/fs/unionfs/lookup.c	2008-06-27 14:08:00.000000000 +0100
> @@ -498,6 +498,7 @@ void free_dentry_private_data(struct den
>  {
>  	if (!dentry || !dentry->d_fsdata)
>  		return;
> +	kfree(UNIONFS_D(dentry)->lower_paths);
>  	kmem_cache_free(unionfs_dentry_cachep, dentry->d_fsdata);
>  	dentry->d_fsdata = NULL;
>  }


Thanks, I'll take a closer look at this to ensure that all paths kfree
lower_paths as needed.

Erez.
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