(this is back from May 16 2007, resending since it doesn't look like
the patch ever made it in anywhere)
The Coverity checker found a memory leak in xfs_inactive().
The offending code is this bit :
1671 tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_INACTIVE);
At conditional (1): "truncate != 0" taking true path
1672 if (truncate) {
1673 /*
1674 * Do the xfs_itruncate_start() call before
1675 * reserving any log space because itruncate_start
1676 * will call into the buffer cache and we can't
1677 * do that within a transaction.
1678 */
1679 xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
1680
1681 error = xfs_itruncate_start(ip, XFS_ITRUNC_DEFINITE, 0);
At conditional (2): "error != 0" taking true path
1682 if (error) {
1683 xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
Event leaked_storage: Returned without freeing storage "tp"
Also see events: [alloc_fn][var_assign]
1684 return VN_INACTIVE_CACHE;
1685 }
So, the code allocates a transaction, but in the case where 'truncate' is !=0 and xfs_itruncate_start(ip, XFS_ITRUNC_DEFINITE, 0); happens to return an error, we'll just return from the function without dealing with the memory allocated byxfs_trans_alloc() and assigned to 'tp', thus it'll be orphaned/leaked - not good.
The bug was introduced by this commit:
http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=comm...
The patch below is
From: Dave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
Index: 2.6.x-xfs-new/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c
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--- 2.6.x-xfs-new.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_vnodeops.c 2007-05-11 16:0...
