Re: [PATCH][XFS][resend] memory leak; allocated transaction not freedin xfs_inactive_free_eofblocks() in failure case.

[Eric Sandeen]

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

Weird, looks like it's in cvs...

http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/xfs-linux/xfs_vnodeops.c.diff?r1=text&tr1=1.699&r2=text&tr2=1.698&f=h

but not in git.

-Eric

> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> --- 
>  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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