jbd2: fix potential memory leak on transaction commit

There is potential memory leak of journal head in function
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction. The problem is that JBD2 will not
reclaim the journal head of commit record if error occurs or journal
is abotred.

I use the following script to reproduce this issue, on a RHEL6
system. I found it very easy to reproduce with async commit enabled.

mount /dev/sdb /mnt -o journal_checksum,journal_async_commit
touch /mnt/xxx
echo offline > /sys/block/sdb/device/state
sync
umount /mnt
rmmod ext4
rmmod jbd2

Removal of the jbd2 module will make slab complaining that
"cache `jbd2_journal_head': can't free all objects".

Signed-off-by: Zhang Huan <zhhuan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

diff --git a/fs/jbd2/commit.c b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
index fa36d7662b217455a99a83f93e35899dbf950e4a..b98e4c1eecffadcb646adb2f473222b36d1c2429 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/jbd2/commit.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/commit.c
@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ static int journal_submit_commit_record(journal_t *journal,
        int ret;
        struct timespec now = current_kernel_time();
 
+       *cbh = NULL;
+
        if (is_journal_aborted(journal))
                return 0;
 
@@ -806,7 +808,7 @@ wait_for_iobuf:
                if (err)
                        __jbd2_journal_abort_hard(journal);
        }
-       if (!err && !is_journal_aborted(journal))
+       if (cbh)
                err = journal_wait_on_commit_record(journal, cbh);
        if (JBD2_HAS_INCOMPAT_FEATURE(journal,
                                      JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT) &&