[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "bcache: fix a leak in bch_cached_dev_run()" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Jan 27 00:10:48 UTC 2016


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

    bcache: fix a leak in bch_cached_dev_run()

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt3.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 7a8891f416f02fe47ad771fe01fc980e74b817cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Al Viro <viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2015 17:20:59 -0800
Subject: bcache: fix a leak in bch_cached_dev_run()

commit 4d4d8573a8451acc9f01cbea24b7e55f04a252fe upstream.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Joshua Schmid <jschmid at suse.com>
Tested-by: Eric Wheeler <bcache at linux.ewheeler.net>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo at daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe at fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
index 17873b0..f13b0e2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c
@@ -874,8 +874,11 @@ void bch_cached_dev_run(struct cached_dev *dc)
 	buf[SB_LABEL_SIZE] = '\0';
 	env[2] = kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "CACHED_LABEL=%s", buf);

-	if (atomic_xchg(&dc->running, 1))
+	if (atomic_xchg(&dc->running, 1)) {
+		kfree(env[1]);
+		kfree(env[2]);
 		return;
+	}

 	if (!d->c &&
 	    BDEV_STATE(&dc->sb) != BDEV_STATE_NONE) {
--
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