[PATCH] xfs_repair: fix record_allocation list manipulation

Eric Sandeen sandeen at sandeen.net
Thu Sep 17 23:54:59 CDT 2009


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> clang found this one too as a "Dead assignment"
> 
> Unless my pointer-fu is totally messed up, this function
> was never actually updating the list head.
> 
> This would mean that the later free_allocations() calls in
> incore_ext_teardown() and free_rt_dup_extent_tree() don't
> actually free more than one item, and therefore leak memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
> ---
> 
> clang record:
> http://sandeen.net/clang/xfsprogs/2009-09-09-1/report-1Jnl15.html#EndPath
> 
> diff --git a/repair/incore.c b/repair/incore.c
> index 84626c9..77f4630 100644
> --- a/repair/incore.c
> +++ b/repair/incore.c
> @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ void
> record_allocation(ba_rec_t *addr, ba_rec_t *list)
> {
>     addr->next = list;
> -    list = addr;
> +    *list = addr;

argh that's not right, I swear I built it, oops.

Will send an update later.

> 
>     return;
> }
> 
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