linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/5] f2fs: fix not to drop mount options when retrying fill

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Message-id: <002a01d03bb6$530c8340$f92589c0$@samsung.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:24:59 +0800
From:	Chao Yu <chao2.yu@...sung.com>
To:	'Jaegeuk Kim' <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/5] f2fs: fix not to drop mount options when retrying
 fill_super

Hi Jaegeuk,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-fsdevel-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:linux-fsdevel-owner@...r.kernel.org] On
> Behalf Of Jaegeuk Kim
> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 7:32 AM
> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org;
> linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Jaegeuk Kim
> Subject: [PATCH 1/5] f2fs: fix not to drop mount options when retrying fill_super
> 
> If wrong mount option was requested, f2fs tries to fill_super again.
> But, during the next trial, f2fs has no valid mount options, since
> parse_options deleted all the separators in the original string.

Nice catch!

But couldn't we encounter memory leak for options if we did not fail to fill super.

Thanks,

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