Re: [PATCH v2] ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_fill_super

From: Theodore Ts'o
Date: Wed Jun 16 2021 - 21:15:46 EST


On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 09:50:46PM +0300, Pavel Skripkin wrote:
> static int kthread(void *_create) will return -ENOMEM
> or -EINTR in case of internal failure or
> kthread_stop() call happens before threadfn call.
>
> To prevent fancy error checking and make code
> more straightforward we moved all cleanup code out
> of kmmpd threadfn.
>
> Also, dropped struct mmpd_data at all. Now struct super_block
> is a threadfn data and struct buffer_head embedded into
> struct ext4_sb_info.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+d9e482e303930fa4f6ff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks! (And apologies for the delay)

- Ted