On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:05:48AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
> 
> On 07/11/2016 08:37 PM, Liu Bo wrote:
> > During build_backref_tree(), if we fail to read a btree node,
> > we can eventually run into BUG_ON(cache->nr_nodes) that we put
> > in backref_cache_cleanup(), meaning we have at least one
> > memory leak.
> > 
> > This frees the backref_node that we allocate at the very beginning of 
> > build_backref_tree().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Liu Bo <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 7 +++++++
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
> > index 0477dca..f00267a 100644
> > --- a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
> > +++ b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
> > @@ -1135,6 +1135,8 @@ out:
> >     btrfs_free_path(path1);
> >     btrfs_free_path(path2);
> >     if (err) {
> > +           int orig_free = 0;
> > +
> >             while (!list_empty(&useless)) {
> >                     lower = list_entry(useless.next,
> >                                        struct backref_node, list);
> > @@ -1171,8 +1173,13 @@ out:
> >                     lower = list_entry(useless.next,
> >                                        struct backref_node, list);
> >                     list_del_init(&lower->list);
> > +                   if (lower == node)
> > +                           orig_free = 1;
> >                     free_backref_node(cache, lower);
> >             }
> > +
> > +           if (!orig_free)
> > +                   free_backref_node(cache, node);
> >             return ERR_PTR(err);
> >     }
> >     ASSERT(!node || !node->detached);
> 
> Instead of doing the orig_free set and test
> 
>       ...
>       if (lower == node)
>               node = NULL
>       free_backref_node(cache, lower)
> }
> free_backref_node(cache, node);
> return ERR_PTR(err);
> 
> Your patch isn't wrong, but having node NULL after it was free'd makes us
> less likely to make mistakes as the code changes.

Golden rule indeed.

Thanks,

-liubo
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