ext4: teach ext4_ext_find_extent() to free path on error

Right now, there are a places where it is all to easy to leak memory
on an error path, via a usage like this:

	struct ext4_ext_path *path = NULL

	while (...) {
		...
		path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, block, path, 0);
		if (IS_ERR(path)) {
			/* oops, if path was non-NULL before the call to
			   ext4_ext_find_extent, we've leaked it!  :-(  */
			...
			return PTR_ERR(path);
		}
		...
	}

Unfortunately, there some code paths where we are doing the following
instead:

	path = ext4_ext_find_extent(inode, block, orig_path, 0);

and where it's important that we _not_ free orig_path in the case
where ext4_ext_find_extent() returns an error.

So change the function signature of ext4_ext_find_extent() so that it
takes a struct ext4_ext_path ** for its third argument, and by
default, on an error, it will free the struct ext4_ext_path, and then
zero out the struct ext4_ext_path * pointer.  In order to avoid
causing problems, we add a flag EXT4_EX_NOFREE_ON_ERR which causes
ext4_ext_find_extent() to use the original behavior of forcing the
caller to deal with freeing the original path pointer on the error
case.

The goal is to get rid of EXT4_EX_NOFREE_ON_ERR entirely, but this
allows for a gentle transition and makes the patches easier to verify.

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>

		

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/ext4.h b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
index 550b4f99a843..696e51ae02fa 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ext4.h
+++ b/fs/ext4/ext4.h
@@ -582,6 +582,7 @@ enum {
  */
 #define EXT4_EX_NOCACHE                         0x0800
 #define EXT4_EX_FORCE_CACHE                     0x1000
+#define EXT4_EX_NOFREE_ON_ERR                   0x2000
 
 /*
  * Flags used by ext4_free_blocks
@@ -2733,7 +2734,7 @@ extern int ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle_t *, struct inode *,
                                   struct ext4_ext_path *,
                                   struct ext4_extent *, int);
 extern struct ext4_ext_path *ext4_ext_find_extent(struct inode *, ext4_lblk_t,
-                                                  struct ext4_ext_path *,
+                                                  struct ext4_ext_path **,
                                                   int flags);
 extern void ext4_ext_drop_refs(struct ext4_ext_path *);
 extern int ext4_ext_check_inode(struct inode *inode);