[PATCH 1/8] xfs: fix log ticket leak on forced shutdown.

[Alex Elder]

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 19:50 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> From: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> 
> The kmemleak detector shows this after test 139:
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffff880079b88bb0 (size 264):

. . .

>     [<ffffffff81123117>] generic_writepages+0x27/0x30
>     [<ffffffff814aba5d>] xfs_vm_writepages+0x5d/0x80
> 
> By inspection, the leak occurs when xlog_write() returns and error
> and we jump to the abort path without dropping the reference on the
> active ticket.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner at redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Reviewed-by: Alex Elder <aelder at sgi.com>