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Commit 6487a9d3 authored by Curt Wohlgemuth's avatar Curt Wohlgemuth Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: More buffer head reference leaks



After the patch I posted last week regarding buffer head ref leaks in
no-journal mode, I looked at all the code that uses buffer heads and
searched for more potential leaks.

The patch below fixes the issues I found; these can occur even when a
journal is present.

The change to inode.c fixes a double release if
ext4_journal_get_create_access() fails.

The changes to namei.c are more complicated.  add_dirent_to_buf() will
release the input buffer head EXCEPT when it returns -ENOSPC.  There are
some callers of this routine that don't always do the brelse() in the event
that -ENOSPC is returned.  Unfortunately, to put this fix into ext4_add_entry()
required capturing the return value of make_indexed_dir() and
add_dirent_to_buf().

Signed-off-by: default avatarCurt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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