The patch titled hfsplus: add missing call to bio_put() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is hfsplus-add-missing-call-to-bio_put.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: hfsplus: add missing call to bio_put() From: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> hfsplus leaks bio objects by failing to call bio_put() on the bios it allocates. Add the missing call to fix the leak. Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> [2.6.38+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c~hfsplus-add-missing-call-to-bio_put fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c --- a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c~hfsplus-add-missing-call-to-bio_put +++ a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ int hfsplus_submit_bio(struct block_devi { DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait); struct bio *bio; + int ret = 0; bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1); bio->bi_sector = sector; @@ -54,8 +55,10 @@ int hfsplus_submit_bio(struct block_devi wait_for_completion(&wait); if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE)) - return -EIO; - return 0; + ret = -EIO; + + bio_put(bio); + return ret; } static int hfsplus_read_mdb(void *bufptr, struct hfsplus_wd *wd) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are hfsplus-add-missing-call-to-bio_put.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html