In nearly all of the calls to ext4_ext_find_extent() where the caller is trying to recycle the path object, ext4_ext_drop_refs() gets called to release the buffer heads before the path object gets overwritten. To simplify things for the callers, and to avoid the possibility of a memory leak, make ext4_ext_find_extent() responsible for dropping the buffers. Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 11 ++++------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c index f6d8b00..62aa508 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -859,8 +859,10 @@ ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *inode, ext4_lblk_t block, eh = ext_inode_hdr(inode); depth = ext_depth(inode); - /* account possible depth increase */ - if (!path) { + if (path) + ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); + else { + /* account possible depth increase */ path = kzalloc(sizeof(struct ext4_ext_path) * (depth + 2), GFP_NOFS); if (unlikely(!path)) @@ -1348,7 +1350,6 @@ repeat: goto out; /* refill path */ - ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, (ext4_lblk_t)le32_to_cpu(newext->ee_block), ppath, gb_flags); @@ -1361,7 +1362,6 @@ repeat: goto out; /* refill path */ - ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, (ext4_lblk_t)le32_to_cpu(newext->ee_block), ppath, gb_flags); @@ -3325,7 +3325,6 @@ static int ext4_split_extent(handle_t *handle, * Update path is required because previous ext4_split_extent_at() may * result in split of original leaf or extent zeroout. */ - ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, map->m_lblk, ppath, 0); if (IS_ERR(path)) return PTR_ERR(path); @@ -3724,7 +3723,6 @@ static int ext4_convert_unwritten_extents_endio(handle_t *handle, EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT); if (err < 0) return err; - ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, map->m_lblk, ppath, 0); if (IS_ERR(path)) return PTR_ERR(path); @@ -3953,7 +3951,6 @@ convert_initialized_extent(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CONVERT_UNWRITTEN); if (err < 0) return err; - ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, map->m_lblk, ppath, 0); if (IS_ERR(path)) return PTR_ERR(path); -- 2.1.0 -- 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