This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hfsplus: add missing call to bio_put()
to the 2.6.39-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hfsplus-add-missing-call-to-bio_put.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.39 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 50176ddefa4a942419cb693dd2d8345bfdcde67c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Seth Forshee <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 16:35:50 -0500
Subject: hfsplus: add missing call to bio_put()
From: Seth Forshee <[email protected]>
commit 50176ddefa4a942419cb693dd2d8345bfdcde67c upstream.
hfsplus leaks bio objects by failing to call bio_put() on the bios
it allocates. Add the missing call to fix the leak.
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/wrapper.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ int hfsplus_submit_bio(struct block_devi
{
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK(wait);
struct bio *bio;
+ int ret = 0;
bio = bio_alloc(GFP_NOIO, 1);
bio->bi_sector = sector;
@@ -54,8 +55,10 @@ int hfsplus_submit_bio(struct block_devi
wait_for_completion(&wait);
if (!bio_flagged(bio, BIO_UPTODATE))
- return -EIO;
- return 0;
+ ret = -EIO;
+
+ bio_put(bio);
+ return ret;
}
static int hfsplus_read_mdb(void *bufptr, struct hfsplus_wd *wd)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from
[email protected] are
queue-2.6.39/hfsplus-add-missing-call-to-bio_put.patch
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