2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ (cherry picked from commit 024eab4d5bf7e3168a2b71038b3e04e6b1f376ed) 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 Tested-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2571,13 +2571,11 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_backend(struct s { 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 s 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); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/