Re: [PATCH] fs: reiserfs: remove useless new_opts in reiserfs_remount

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Oct 27 2021 - 10:45:51 EST


On Wed 27-10-21 22:34:41, Dongliang Mu wrote:
> Since the commit c3d98ea08291 ("VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options
> if not using generic_show_options") eliminates replace_mount_options
> in reiserfs_remount, but does not handle the allocated new_opts,
> it will cause memory leak in the reiserfs_remount.
>
> Because new_opts is useless in reiserfs_mount, so we fix this bug by
> removing the useless new_opts in reiserfs_remount.
>
> Fixes: c3d98ea08291 ("VFS: Don't use save/replace_mount_options if not using generic_show_options")
> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks. I've added the patch to my tree.

Honza

> ---
> fs/reiserfs/super.c | 6 ------
> 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> index 58481f8d63d5..f7b05c6b3dcf 100644
> --- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
> @@ -1437,7 +1437,6 @@ static int reiserfs_remount(struct super_block *s, int *mount_flags, char *arg)
> unsigned long safe_mask = 0;
> unsigned int commit_max_age = (unsigned int)-1;
> struct reiserfs_journal *journal = SB_JOURNAL(s);
> - char *new_opts;
> int err;
> char *qf_names[REISERFS_MAXQUOTAS];
> unsigned int qfmt = 0;
> @@ -1445,10 +1444,6 @@ static int reiserfs_remount(struct super_block *s, int *mount_flags, char *arg)
> int i;
> #endif
>
> - new_opts = kstrdup(arg, GFP_KERNEL);
> - if (arg && !new_opts)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> sync_filesystem(s);
> reiserfs_write_lock(s);
>
> @@ -1599,7 +1594,6 @@ static int reiserfs_remount(struct super_block *s, int *mount_flags, char *arg)
> out_err_unlock:
> reiserfs_write_unlock(s);
> out_err:
> - kfree(new_opts);
> return err;
> }
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR