linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/1 version2] Extent overlap bugfix in ext4

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Message-ID: <20070104111616.GA15920@amitarora.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 2007 16:46:16 +0530
From:	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Alex Tomas <alex@...sterfs.com>
Cc:	Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	suparna@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 version2] Extent overlap bugfix in ext4

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 01:25:35PM +0300, Alex Tomas wrote:
> >>>>> Amit K Arora (AKA) writes:
> 
>  AKA> +int ext4_ext_check_overlap(struct inode *inode,
>  AKA> +					struct ext4_extent *newext,
>  AKA> +					unsigned long *block)
>  AKA> +{
>  AKA> +	struct ext4_ext_path *path;
>  AKA> +	unsigned int depth, b1, len1;
>  AKA> +	int ret = 0;
>  AKA> +
>  AKA> +	b1 = le32_to_cpu(newext->ee_block);
>  AKA> +	len1 = le16_to_cpu(newext->ee_len);
>  AKA> +	path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, b1, NULL);
>  AKA> +	if (IS_ERR(path)) {
>  AKA> +		ret = PTR_ERR(path);
>  AKA> +		goto out;
>  AKA> +	}
>  AKA> +	depth = ext_depth(inode);
>  AKA> +	BUG_ON(path[depth].p_ext == NULL && depth != 0);
>  AKA> +
>  AKA> +	*block = ext4_ext_next_allocated_block(path);
>  AKA> +	if (*block == EXT_MAX_BLOCK)
>  AKA> +		goto out;
>  AKA> +
>  AKA> +	if (b1 + len1 > *block)
>  AKA> +		ret = 1;
>  AKA> +out:
>  AKA> +	return ret;
> 
> <AT> ext4_ext_find_extent() allocates 'path', I'd expect
> <AT> kfree() in the function.

Ok. I will add following after "out:" 
	if (path) {
		ext4_ext_drop_refs(path);
		kfree(path);
	}

And also set "path = NULL;" before calling "goto out", incase
ext4_ext_find_extent() returns an error.

--
Regards,
Amit Arora
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