Possible Bug

Carlo Caione carlo at caione.org
Thu Mar 31 12:30:45 EDT 2016


On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:08 PM, Roger H Newell <newell.roger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 12:18 PM, nick <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2016-03-31 08:34 AM, Roger H Newell wrote:
>> In the fs/file_table.c file as from the root directory of your kernel tree change in the function,
>> get_empty_flip change these lines:
>>          if (unlikely(error)) {
>>                  file_free(f);
>>                  return ERR_PTR(error);
>>          }
>> to:
>>         if (unlikely(error))
>>                 return ERR_PTR(error);
>> and tell me if that fixes your issue.
>> Nick
>
>
> Seems to have worked, the error is is gone and I can mount the USB device.

That's not a fix, you are leaking f.

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Carlo Caione



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