The name allocated for the kmem_cache was being freed in the error path even if that name was still assigned to the newly created cache. Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 5 ++--- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 851f49b..69b90fe 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c @@ -2423,7 +2423,6 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery) int ret; int cache_index; struct kmem_cache *cachep; - char *namep = NULL; i = (sb->s_blocksize_bits + 2) * sizeof(*sbi->s_mb_offsets); @@ -2443,7 +2442,7 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery) cache_index = sb->s_blocksize_bits - EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE; cachep = ext4_groupinfo_caches[cache_index]; if (!cachep) { - char name[32]; + char name[32], *namep; int len = offsetof(struct ext4_group_info, bb_counters[sb->s_blocksize_bits + 2]); @@ -2459,6 +2458,7 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery) cachep = kmem_cache_create(namep, len, 0, SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT, NULL); if (!cachep) { + kfree(namep); ret = -ENOMEM; goto out; } @@ -2520,7 +2520,6 @@ out: if (ret) { kfree(sbi->s_mb_offsets); kfree(sbi->s_mb_maxs); - kfree(namep); } return ret; } -- 1.7.2.3 -- 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