Re: [linux-karma-devel] [PATCH] omfs: fix memory leak

From: Davidlohr Bueso
Date: Tue Jul 06 2010 - 00:51:15 EST


On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:00 -0400, me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 01:12:39AM -0400, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> > Isn't put_super() called to free data when things run "normally", like
> > for unmounting? So this function does two things:
>
> Ok, I checked it out and you are right, FS put_super is only called
> after successful mount so there is a leak. I'll take your patch,
> but please:
>
> - remove the /* success */ comment, IMO it's just noise
> - write the if conditional as the more usual:

> if (ret)
>


Ok, resending that patch with the corrections. Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@xxxxxxx>

---
fs/omfs/inode.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/omfs/inode.c b/fs/omfs/inode.c
index 089839a..b5d6380 100644
--- a/fs/omfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/omfs/inode.c
@@ -529,6 +529,8 @@ out_brelse_bh2:
out_brelse_bh:
brelse(bh);
end:
+ if (ret)
+ kfree(sbi);
return ret;
}

--
1.7.0.4




> > kfree(sbi->s_imap)
> > kfree(sbi)
> >
> > However, in omfs_get_imap() 'sbi->s_imap' is freed upon failure, so
> > wouldn't this also crash on the first kfree in omfs_put_super()?
>
> This is ok, since sbi->s_imap is set to null in that case and
> kfree(NULL) is fine.
>
> Thanks for the review!
>


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