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Patch "btrfs: fix memory leak during RAID 5/6 device replacement" has been added to the 4.5-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

btrfs: fix memory leak during RAID 5/6 device replacement

to the 4.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
btrfs-fix-memory-leak-during-raid-5-6-device-replacement.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From 4673272f43ae790ab9ec04e38a7542f82bb8f020 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Scott Talbert <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 9 May 2016 09:14:28 -0400
Subject: btrfs: fix memory leak during RAID 5/6 device replacement

From: Scott Talbert <[email protected]>

commit 4673272f43ae790ab9ec04e38a7542f82bb8f020 upstream.

A 'struct bio' is allocated in scrub_missing_raid56_pages(), but it was never freed anywhere.

---
 fs/btrfs/scrub.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
fs/btrfs/scrub.c +2 -0
@@ -2125,6 +2125,8 @@ static void scrub_missing_raid56_end_io(
 	if (bio->bi_error)
 		sblock->no_io_error_seen = 0;
 
+	bio_put(bio);
+
 	btrfs_queue_work(fs_info->scrub_workers, &sblock->work);
 }
 

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.5/btrfs-fix-memory-leak-during-raid-5-6-device-replacement.patch