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authorArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2011-05-06 16:08:56 +0200
committerArtem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>2011-05-13 18:23:57 +0200
commiteaeee242c531cd4b0a4a46e8b5dd7ef504380c42 (patch)
tree7009f5a79dd67d5eb29140b8cfe4c9dc11dfcae7 /fs/ubifs/sb.c
parentUBIFS: fix inode size debugging check failure (diff)
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UBIFS: fix a rare memory leak in ro to rw remounting path
When re-mounting from R/O mode to R/W mode and the LEB count in the superblock is not up-to date, because for the underlying UBI volume became larger, we re-write the superblock. We allocate RAM for these purposes, but never free it. So this is a memory leak, although very rare one. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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diff --git a/fs/ubifs/sb.c b/fs/ubifs/sb.c
index bf31b4729e51..cad60b51f7c4 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/sb.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/sb.c
@@ -475,7 +475,8 @@ failed:
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
* This function returns a pointer to the superblock node or a negative error
- * code.
+ * code. Note, the user of this function is responsible of kfree()'ing the
+ * returned superblock buffer.
*/
struct ubifs_sb_node *ubifs_read_sb_node(struct ubifs_info *c)
{