1 From c49bafa3842751b8955a962859f42d307673d75d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
2 From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
3 Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:58:41 -0400
4 Subject: ext4: add missing kfree() on error return path in add_new_gdb()
6 Patch-mainline: v3.1-rc1
8 We added some more error handling in b40971426a "ext4: add error
9 checking to calls to ext4_handle_dirty_metadata()". But we need to
10 call kfree() as well to avoid a memory leak.
12 Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
13 Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
14 Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
16 fs/ext4/resize.c | 1 +
17 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
19 --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c
20 +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c
21 @@ -475,6 +475,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb(handle_t *handle,
25 + kfree(n_group_desc);
26 /* ext4_journal_release_buffer(handle, iloc.bh); */