linux-ext4 - [PATCH 08/16] fuse2fs: free global_fs after a failed ext2fs

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Message-ID: <176062915610.3343688.9268207114006804614.stgit@frogsfrogsfrogs>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:41:52 -0700
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
To: tytso@....edu
Cc: linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 08/16] fuse2fs: free global_fs after a failed ext2fs_close
 call

From: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...nel.org>

If ext2fs_close fails for any reason, it won't free the ext2_filsys
object or any of the other things that hang off of it, like the io
managers and whatnot.  Right now this results in a memory leak of
global_fs, which is mostly benign because we're nearly to the end of
main() anyway.

However, a future patch will move the ext2fs_close call to op_destroy
prior to introducing iomap support, which means that we won't close
the (O_EXCL) block device before returning from umount, which will cause
problems with fstests and the user expectation that block devices are
closed when umount(8) returns.

Therefore, free the context after a failed close.

Cc: <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org> # v1.43.7
Fixes: 6ae16a6814f47c ("misc: clean up error handling for ext2fs_run_ext3_journal()")
Signed-off-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...nel.org>
---
 misc/fuse2fs.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/misc/fuse2fs.c b/misc/fuse2fs.c
index 4d92e1e818b1c4..0a862ea086cbde 100644
--- a/misc/fuse2fs.c
+++ b/misc/fuse2fs.c
@@ -4904,10 +4904,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		fflush(orig_stderr);
 	}
 	if (global_fs) {
-		err = ext2fs_close(global_fs);
+		err = ext2fs_close_free(&global_fs);
 		if (err)
 			com_err(argv[0], err, "while closing fs");
-		global_fs = NULL;
 	}
 	if (fctx.lockfile) {
 		if (unlink(fctx.lockfile)) {