Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:58:48 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 36/48] [GFS2] fix file_system_type leak on gfs2meta mount |
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On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 09:39:12AM +0100, swhiteho@redhat.com wrote: > From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> > > get_gfs2_sb does a get_fs_type without doing a put_filesystem and > thus leaking a file_system_type reference everytime it's called. > > Just use gfs2_fs_type directly instead of doing the lookup and thus > fix the problem.
Btw, after this patch we should remove the get_fs_type export. It's not used by modules and because put_filesystem is not exported every modular user would fundamentally have the same leak as the one fixed in this patch.
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