A bug fix and performance regression fix for ext4.

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Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4

Pull ext4 bugfixes from Ted Ts'o:
 "A bug fix and performance regression fix for ext4"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus_stable' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: fix memory leak in xattr
  ext4: fix performance regression in writeback of random writes
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds 2013-10-12 12:55:15 -07:00
commit be5090da4a
2 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -2563,7 +2563,7 @@ retry:
break;
}
blk_finish_plug(&plug);
if (!ret && !cycled) {
if (!ret && !cycled && wbc->nr_to_write > 0) {
cycled = 1;
mpd.last_page = writeback_index - 1;
mpd.first_page = 0;

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@ -1350,6 +1350,8 @@ retry:
s_min_extra_isize) {
tried_min_extra_isize++;
new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
kfree(is); is = NULL;
kfree(bs); bs = NULL;
goto retry;
}
error = -1;