It seems to me that we leak the memory allocated to 'value' in 
btrfs_get_acl() if the call to posix_acl_from_xattr() fails.
Here's a patch that attempts to correct that problem.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <j...@chaosbits.net>
---
 acl.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

  compile tested only.

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/acl.c b/fs/btrfs/acl.c
index 2222d16..6d1410e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/acl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/acl.c
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ static struct posix_acl *btrfs_get_acl(struct inode *inode, 
int type)
                size = __btrfs_getxattr(inode, name, value, size);
                if (size > 0) {
                        acl = posix_acl_from_xattr(value, size);
-                       if (IS_ERR(acl))
+                       if (IS_ERR(acl)) {
+                               kfree(value);
                                return acl;
+                       }
                        set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl);
                }
                kfree(value);


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