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Right now, there are a places where it is all to easy to leak memory
on an error path, via a usage like this:
struct ext4_ext_path *path = NULL
while (...) {
...
path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, block, path, 0);
if (IS_ERR(path)) {
/* oops, if path was non-NULL before the call to
ext4_ext_find_extent, we've leaked it! :-( */
...
return PTR_ERR(path);
}
...
}
Unfortunately, there some code paths where we are doing the following
instead:
path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, block, orig_path, 0);
and where it's important that we _not_ free orig_path in the case
where ext4_ext_find_extent() returns an error.
So change the function signature of ext4_ext_find_extent() so that it
takes a struct ext4_ext_path ** for its third argument, and by
default, on an error, it will free the struct ext4_ext_path, and then
zero out the struct ext4_ext_path * pointer. In order to avoid
causing problems, we add a flag EXT4_EX_NOFREE_ON_ERR which causes
ext4_ext_find_extent() to use the original behavior of forcing the
caller to deal with freeing the original path pointer on the error
case.
The goal is to get rid of EXT4_EX_NOFREE_ON_ERR entirely, but this
allows for a gentle transition and makes the patches easier to verify.
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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| acl.c | ||
| acl.h | ||
| balloc.c | ||
| bitmap.c | ||
| block_validity.c | ||
| dir.c | ||
| ext4.h | ||
| ext4_extents.h | ||
| ext4_jbd2.c | ||
| ext4_jbd2.h | ||
| extents.c | ||
| extents_status.c | ||
| extents_status.h | ||
| file.c | ||
| fsync.c | ||
| hash.c | ||
| ialloc.c | ||
| indirect.c | ||
| inline.c | ||
| inode.c | ||
| ioctl.c | ||
| Kconfig | ||
| Makefile | ||
| mballoc.c | ||
| mballoc.h | ||
| migrate.c | ||
| mmp.c | ||
| move_extent.c | ||
| namei.c | ||
| page-io.c | ||
| resize.c | ||
| super.c | ||
| symlink.c | ||
| truncate.h | ||
| xattr.c | ||
| xattr.h | ||
| xattr_security.c | ||
| xattr_trusted.c | ||
| xattr_user.c | ||