This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4 crypto: fix memory leak in ext4_bio_write_page()
to the 4.3-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-crypto-fix-memory-leak-in-ext4_bio_write_page.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.3 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 937d7b84dca58f2565715f2c8e52f14c3d65fb22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 23:54:58 -0400
Subject: ext4 crypto: fix memory leak in ext4_bio_write_page()
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
commit 937d7b84dca58f2565715f2c8e52f14c3d65fb22 upstream.
There are times when ext4_bio_write_page() is called even though we
don't actually need to do any I/O. This happens when ext4_writepage()
gets called by the jbd2 commit path when an inode needs to force its
pages written out in order to provide data=ordered guarantees --- and
a page is backed by an unwritten (e.g., uninitialized) block on disk,
or if delayed allocation means the page's backing store hasn't been
allocated yet. In that case, we need to skip the call to
ext4_encrypt_page(), since in addition to wasting CPU, it leads to a
bounce page and an ext4 crypto context getting leaked.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/page-io.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/page-io.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/page-io.c
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_s
struct buffer_head *bh, *head;
int ret = 0;
int nr_submitted = 0;
+ int nr_to_submit = 0;
blocksize = 1 << inode->i_blkbits;
@@ -477,11 +478,13 @@ int ext4_bio_write_page(struct ext4_io_s
unmap_underlying_metadata(bh->b_bdev, bh->b_blocknr);
}
set_buffer_async_write(bh);
+ nr_to_submit++;
} while ((bh = bh->b_this_page) != head);
bh = head = page_buffers(page);
- if (ext4_encrypted_inode(inode) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
+ if (ext4_encrypted_inode(inode) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
+ nr_to_submit) {
data_page = ext4_encrypt(inode, page);
if (IS_ERR(data_page)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(data_page);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tytso@xxxxxxx are
queue-4.3/ext4-jbd2-ensure-entering-into-panic-after-recording-an-error-in-superblock.patch
queue-4.3/ext4-crypto-replace-some-bug_on-s-with-error-checks.patch
queue-4.3/ext4-crypto-fix-bugs-in-ext4_encrypted_zeroout.patch
queue-4.3/ext4-crypto-fix-memory-leak-in-ext4_bio_write_page.patch
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