2010/4/7, tytso@xxxxxxx <tytso@xxxxxxx>: > On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 08:34:41PM +0800, jing zhang wrote: >> >> --- linux-2.6.32/fs/ext4/mballoc.c 2009-12-03 11:51:22.000000000 +0800 >> +++ ext4_mm_leak/mballoc-14.c 2010-04-01 20:35:58.000000000 +0800 >> @@ -4299,7 +4299,7 @@ repeat: >> } >> } else { >> freed = ext4_mb_discard_preallocations(sb, ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len); >> - if (freed) >> + if (freed && freed >= ac->ac_o_ex.fe_len) >> goto repeat; >> *errp = -ENOSPC; >> ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len = 0; > > This is just wrong. > > Since you didn't give a justification, I'm not sure why you think it > is correct. > Though freed, is the amount freed bigger than needed? If not, it seems unnecessary to repeat. - zj -- 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