[block:for-3.14/core]: bio_endio: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io isnot set.

From: Muthu Kumar
Date: Tue Jan 07 2014 - 20:57:33 EST


Jens,
In bio_endio if bio doesn't have bi_end_io (should be an error case),
we set bio to NULL and continue silently without freeing the bio. It
would be good to have a WARN and free the bio to avoid memory leak.

If you agree, here is the patch.

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bio_endio: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set

Signed-off-by: Muthukumar Ratty <muthur@xxxxxxxxx>
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fs/bio.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/bio.c b/fs/bio.c
index 75c49a3..581806d 100644
--- a/fs/bio.c
+++ b/fs/bio.c
@@ -1768,8 +1768,15 @@ void bio_endio(struct bio *bio, int error)
bio_put(bio);
bio = parent;
} else {
- if (bio->bi_end_io)
+ if (likely(bio->bi_end_io)) {
bio->bi_end_io(bio, error);
+ } else {
+ char dev_name[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
+ WARN(1, "bio_endio: bio for device %s without endio\n",
+ bio->bi_bdev ? bdevname(bio->bi_bdev,
dev_name) : "(unknown)");
+ bio_put(bio);
+ }
+
bio = NULL;
}
}

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