2.6.37-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
------------------ From: Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> commit 1c5b9e9065567876c2d4a7a16d78f0fed154a5bf upstream. Commit 40389687 moved a call to ext4_forget() out of ext4_free_branches and let ext4_free_blocks() handle calling bforget(). But that change unfortunately did not replace the call to ext4_forget() with brelse(), which was needed to drop the in-use count of the indirect block's buffer head, which lead to a memory leak when deleting files that used indirect blocks. Fix this. Thanks to Hugh Dickins for pointing this out. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- fs/ext4/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -4349,6 +4349,7 @@ static void ext4_free_branches(handle_t (__le32 *) bh->b_data, (__le32 *) bh->b_data + addr_per_block, depth); + brelse(bh); /* * Everything below this this pointer has been _______________________________________________ stable mailing list [email protected] http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/stable
