Re: [RFC 1/2] gfs2: replace sd_aspace with sd_inode

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2025 at 8:04 AM Tetsuo Handa
<penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2025/04/08 3:21, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > @@ -1156,6 +1146,18 @@ static int gfs2_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
> >       sb->s_flags |= SB_NOSEC;
> >       sb->s_magic = GFS2_MAGIC;
> >       sb->s_op = &gfs2_super_ops;
> > +
> > +     /* Set up an address space for metadata writes */
> > +     sdp->sd_inode = new_inode(sb);
> > +     if (!sdp->sd_inode)
> > +             goto fail_free;
> > +     sdp->sd_inode->i_ino = GFS2_BAD_INO;
> > +     sdp->sd_inode->i_size = OFFSET_MAX;
> > +
> > +     mapping = gfs2_aspace(sdp);
> > +     mapping->a_ops = &gfs2_rgrp_aops;
> > +     mapping_set_gfp_mask(mapping, GFP_NOFS);
> > +
> >       sb->s_d_op = &gfs2_dops;
> >       sb->s_export_op = &gfs2_export_ops;
> >       sb->s_qcop = &gfs2_quotactl_ops;
>
> This will be an inode leak when hitting e.g.
>
>         error = init_names(sdp, silent);
>         if (error)
>                 goto fail_free;
>
> path, for what free_sbd() in
>
> fail_free:
>         free_sbd(sdp);
>         sb->s_fs_info = NULL;
>         return error;
>
> path does is nothing but free_percpu() and kfree().

Indeed, an iput() is indeed needed in that case.

Thanks,
Andreas