[U-Boot] [U-Boot, 02/10] ext4: avoid calling ext4fs_mount() twice, which leaks

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sat Sep 12 14:51:13 CEST 2015


On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 10:03:43PM -0600, Stephen Warren wrote:

> From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> 
> ext4_write_file() is only called from the "fs" layer, which calls both
> ext4fs_mount() and ext4fs_close() before/after calling ext4_write_file().
> Fix ext4_write_file() not to call ext4fs_mount() again, since the mount
> operation malloc()s some RAM which is leaked when a second mount call
> over-writes the pointer to that data, if no intervening close call is
> made.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski at samsung.com>
> Tested-by: Lukasz Majewski <l.majewski at samsung.com>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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