linux-kernel - [PATCH][XFS][resend] memory leak; allocated transaction not freed in xfs_inactive_free

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Message-Id: <200707010116.54884.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 1 Jul 2007 01:16:54 +0200
From:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	David Chinner <dgc@....com>, xfs-masters@....sgi.com,
	xfs@....sgi.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH][XFS][resend] memory leak; allocated transaction not freed in xfs_inactive_free_eofblocks() in failure case.

(this is back from May 16 2007, resending since it doesn't look like 
the patch ever made it in anywhere)


Fix XFS memory leak; allocated transaction not freed in xfs_inactive_free_eofblocks() in failure case.

the code allocates a transaction, but in the case where 'truncate' is
!=0 and xfs_itruncate_start(ip, XFS_ITRUNC_DEFINITE, 0); happens to return
an error, we'll just return from the function without dealing with the
memory allocated byxfs_trans_alloc() and assigned to 'tp', thus it'll be
orphaned/leaked - not good.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
--- 
 fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
index de17aed..32519cf 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
@@ -1260,6 +1260,7 @@ xfs_inactive_free_eofblocks(
 		error = xfs_itruncate_start(ip, XFS_ITRUNC_DEFINITE,
 				    ip->i_size);
 		if (error) {
+			xfs_trans_cancel(tp, 0);
 			xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
 			return error;
 		}


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