FAILED: patch "[PATCH] btrfs: fix memory leak of fs_info in block group cache" failed to apply to 4.4-stable tree

The patch below does not apply to the 4.4-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.

thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From: Kinglong Mee <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 21:36:00 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] btrfs: fix memory leak of fs_info in block group cache

When starting up linux with btrfs filesystem, I got many memory leak messages by kmemleak as,

unreferenced object 0xffff880066882000 (size 4096):
comm "modprobe", pid 730, jiffies 4294690024 (age 196.599s) hex dump (first 32 bytes):

    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8174d52e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
    [<ffffffff811d09aa>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xea/0x1e0
    [<ffffffffa03620fb>] btrfs_alloc_dummy_fs_info+0x6b/0x2a0 [btrfs]
    [<ffffffffa03624fc>] btrfs_alloc_dummy_block_group+0x5c/0x120 [btrfs]
    [<ffffffffa0360aa9>] btrfs_test_free_space_cache+0x39/0xed0 [btrfs]
    [<ffffffffa03b5a74>] trace_raw_output_xfs_attr_class+0x54/0xe0 [xfs]
    [<ffffffff81002122>] do_one_initcall+0xb2/0x1f0
    [<ffffffff811765aa>] do_init_module+0x5e/0x1e9
    [<ffffffff810fec09>] load_module+0x20a9/0x2690
    [<ffffffff810ff439>] SyS_finit_module+0xb9/0xf0
    [<ffffffff81757daf>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
unreferenced object 0xffff8800573f8000 (size 10256):
  comm "modprobe", pid 730, jiffies 4294690185 (age 196.460s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff8174d52e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
    [<ffffffff8119ca6e>] kmalloc_order+0x5e/0x70
    [<ffffffff8119caa4>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x24/0x90
    [<ffffffffa03620b3>] btrfs_alloc_dummy_fs_info+0x23/0x2a0 [btrfs]
    [<ffffffffa03624fc>] btrfs_alloc_dummy_block_group+0x5c/0x120 [btrfs]
    [<ffffffffa036603d>] run_test+0xfd/0x320 [btrfs]
    [<ffffffffa0366f34>] btrfs_test_free_space_tree+0x94/0xee [btrfs]
    [<ffffffffa03b5aab>] trace_raw_output_xfs_attr_class+0x8b/0xe0 [xfs]
    [<ffffffff81002122>] do_one_initcall+0xb2/0x1f0
    [<ffffffff811765aa>] do_init_module+0x5e/0x1e9
    [<ffffffff810fec09>] load_module+0x20a9/0x2690
    [<ffffffff810ff439>] SyS_finit_module+0xb9/0xf0
    [<ffffffff81757daf>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

This patch lets btrfs using fs_info stored in btrfs_root for block group cache directly without allocating a new one.

index 0e1e61a7ec23..d39f714dabeb 100644
@@ -189,12 +189,6 @@ btrfs_alloc_dummy_block_group(unsigned long length)
 		kfree(cache);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	cache->fs_info = btrfs_alloc_dummy_fs_info();
-	if (!cache->fs_info) {
-		kfree(cache->free_space_ctl);
-		kfree(cache);
-		return NULL;
-	}
 
 	cache->key.objectid = 0;
 	cache->key.offset = length;

index d05fe1ab4808..7cea4462acd5 100644
@@ -485,6 +485,7 @@ static int run_test(test_func_t test_func, int bitmaps)
 	cache->bitmap_low_thresh = 0;
 	cache->bitmap_high_thresh = (u32)-1;
 	cache->needs_free_space = 1;
+	cache->fs_info = root->fs_info;
 
 	btrfs_init_dummy_trans(&trans);