The following patch addresses a memory leak in libext2fs that occurs when using ext2fs_write_new_inode() on a file system configured with large inodes. Signed-off-by: Jim Garlick <garlick@xxxxxxxx> Index: e2fsprogs+chaos/lib/ext2fs/inode.c =================================================================== --- e2fsprogs+chaos.orig/lib/ext2fs/inode.c +++ e2fsprogs+chaos/lib/ext2fs/inode.c @@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_write_new_inode(ext2_fi struct ext2_inode *buf; int size = EXT2_INODE_SIZE(fs->super); struct ext2_inode_large *large_inode; + errcode_t rc; if (size == sizeof(struct ext2_inode)) return ext2fs_write_inode_full(fs, ino, inode, @@ -768,7 +769,9 @@ errcode_t ext2fs_write_new_inode(ext2_fi large_inode->i_extra_isize = sizeof(struct ext2_inode_large) - EXT2_GOOD_OLD_INODE_SIZE; - return ext2fs_write_inode_full(fs, ino, buf, size); + rc = ext2fs_write_inode_full(fs, ino, buf, size); + free(buf); + return rc; } - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html