linux-ext4 - [PATCH] Add missing brelse to xattr code.

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Date:	Wed, 6 Nov 2013 10:45:46 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Add missing brelse to xattr code.

This code was recently patched to not leak memory on the retry path,
but it seems we are also forgetting to brelse the bufferhead.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@...oraproject.org>

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index 03e9bebba198..1423c4816a47 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1352,6 +1352,7 @@ retry:
 					new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
 					kfree(is); is = NULL;
 					kfree(bs); bs = NULL;
+					brelse(bh);
 					goto retry;
 				}
 				error = -1;
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