From 1c5b9e9065567876c2d4a7a16d78f0fed154a5bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Theodore Ts'o Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:51:28 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_free_branches Commit 40389687 moved a call to ext4_forget() out of ext4_free_branches and let ext4_free_blocks() handle calling bforget(). But that change unfortunately did not replace the call to ext4_forget() with brelse(), which was needed to drop the in-use count of the indirect block's buffer head, which lead to a memory leak when deleting files that used indirect blocks. Fix this. Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing this out. Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c index 84b616269265..e80fc513eacc 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4378,6 +4378,7 @@ static void ext4_free_branches(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode, (__le32 *) bh->b_data, (__le32 *) bh->b_data + addr_per_block, depth); + brelse(bh); /* * Everything below this this pointer has been