linux-ext4 - [PATCH] ext4: Avoid memory leak of ext4_groupinfo_caches in ext4_groupinfo_create

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Date:	Mon, 11 Jul 2011 23:26:55 +0800
From:	Tao Ma <tm@....ma>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	tytso@....edu
Subject: [PATCH] ext4: Avoid memory leak of ext4_groupinfo_caches in ext4_groupinfo_create_slab.

From: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>

In ext4_groupinfo_create_slab, we create ext4_groupinfo_caches within
ext4_grpinfo_slab_create_mutex, but set it outside the lock, and there
does exist some case that we may create it twice and causes a memory
leak. So set it before we call mutex_unlock.

Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <boyu.mt@...bao.com>
---
 fs/ext4/mballoc.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 9a35263..c680641 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2404,14 +2404,14 @@ static int ext4_groupinfo_create_slab(size_t size)
 					slab_size, 0, SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT,
 					NULL);

+	ext4_groupinfo_caches[cache_index] = cachep;
+
 	mutex_unlock(&ext4_grpinfo_slab_create_mutex);
 	if (!cachep) {
 		printk(KERN_EMERG "EXT4: no memory for groupinfo slab cache\n");
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}

-	ext4_groupinfo_caches[cache_index] = cachep;
-
 	return 0;
 }

-- 
1.7.4

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