linux-kernel - Re: nfs mount fail

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Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:23:33 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: nfs mount fail


* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> wrote:

> 
> * Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> wrote:
> 
> > > --- a/fs/nfs/super.c
> > > +++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
> > > @@ -1253,6 +1253,7 @@ static int nfs_parse_mount_options(char *raw,
> > >  			default:
> > >  				dfprintk(MOUNT, "NFS:   unrecognized "
> > >  						"transport protocol\n");
> > > +				kfree(string);
> > >  				return 0;
> > >  			}
> > >  			break;
> > 
> > There is a possible clean up there too. We can move the other kfree() 
> > calls out of the inner switch statement, and coalesce them all into a 
> > single call.
> 
> Correct - separately from the leak fix. (which potentially wants to go 
> to -stable as well)

Not necessarily -stable material though - this is a really light memory 
leak and only on a rare failure path, i doubt anyone noticed in 
practice.

So d508afb fixed all that needed fixing and there's nothing serious 
pending here. I've reverted all pending bits in tip:out-of-tree, so it's 
pure -git now. I rarely have to carry any NFS fixes in out-of-tree, this 
was an odd-one-out exception that fell through the cracks.

	Ingo
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