[PATCH 5/6] xfs: xlog_recover_process_data leaks like a sieve

Mark Tinguely tinguely at sgi.com
Tue Dec 17 11:58:57 CST 2013


On 12/16/13 09:23, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 09:11:02AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> >  I'll rework it, but hte main issue is that it has to be freed
>> >  regardless of the error value in commit record processing, so it's
>> >  not as simple as just freeing it on error....
> Indeed, but think that's another reason to move the freeing to
> xlog_recover_process_data.  Right now or with the proposed patch
> xlog_recover_commit_trans frees trans, but there's nothing that
> breaks out of the loop in xlog_recover_process_data after that case.
>
> By moving the freeing there for all cases we can add a corruption
> check for that case, and we have a single function that controls
> the lifetime of the xlog_recover structure.

I like that idea of doing the frees in xlog_recover_process_data().
Each loop allocates a new trans, so each loop is self contained.

--Mark.



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