linux-kernel - pstore: fix leaking ->i

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Date:	Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:44:48 -0700
From:	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@...el.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: pstore: fix leaking ->i_private

From: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

Move kfree() of i_private out of ->unlink() and into ->evict_inode()

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>

---

> Incidentally, you are leaking ->i_private on umount.  You want ->evict_inode()
> doing that kfree(), not ->unlink().  And possibly ->erase() as well, with
> check for zero i_nlink around it (in ->evict_inode()).

I think this does what I want.

I only want to ->erase() the persistant store if there has been an unlink(2)
on the file.  It looks to be safe and right to do this in ->unlink()

I don't think I need any checks on i_nlink - pstore filesystem won't let you
make extra links to a file.

end_writeback(inode) looks to be somewhat overkill, all I need is to set I_CLEAR
bit in ->i_state. But nobody else does this by hand, and the extra actions in
end_writeback() look to be harmless.

diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 0834223..e8b0c08 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -73,11 +73,16 @@ static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	struct pstore_private *p = dentry->d_inode->i_private;
 
 	p->erase(p->id);
-	kfree(p);
 
 	return simple_unlink(dir, dentry);
 }
 
+static void pstore_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	kfree(inode->i_private);
+	end_writeback(inode);
+}
+
 static const struct inode_operations pstore_dir_inode_operations = {
 	.lookup		= simple_lookup,
 	.unlink		= pstore_unlink,
@@ -110,6 +115,7 @@ static struct inode *pstore_get_inode(struct super_block *sb,
 static const struct super_operations pstore_ops = {
 	.statfs		= simple_statfs,
 	.drop_inode	= generic_delete_inode,
+	.evict_inode	= pstore_evict_inode,
 	.show_options	= generic_show_options,
 };
 
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