[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "ext4: avoid bh leak in retry path of ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Nov 29 14:02:15 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    ext4: avoid bh leak in retry path of ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 989d93b4fa76bf88fdf591f808bfd4a2e4c93a2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 23:00:24 -0400
Subject: ext4: avoid bh leak in retry path of ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea()

commit dcb9917ba041866686fe152850364826c4622a36 upstream.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso at mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 fs/ext4/xattr.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
index e979d5d..2f7cf35 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1330,6 +1330,7 @@ retry:
 					new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
 					kfree(is); is = NULL;
 					kfree(bs); bs = NULL;
+					brelse(bh);
 					goto retry;
 				}
 				error = -1;
--
1.8.3.2





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