Commit a774f9c2 "ext4: make ext4_init_dot_dotdot for inline dir usage"
is a preparation cleanup for later ext4 patches but there was a snag
when moving code to the newly created ext4_init_new_dir() function.
ext4_bread() is called twice but brelse() is only called one leading to a
memory leak. The user-visible effect is that after a compile-orientated
benchmark 0% of memory could be allocated as transparent huge pages.
This patch deletes the extra call and after it is applied, 76% of memory
could be allocated after the same test.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 8990165..d068885 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -2368,7 +2368,6 @@ static int ext4_init_new_dir(handle_t *handle, struct 
inode *dir,
        }
 
        inode->i_size = EXT4_I(inode)->i_disksize = blocksize;
-       dir_block = ext4_bread(handle, inode, 0, 1, &err);
        if (!(dir_block = ext4_bread(handle, inode, 0, 1, &err))) {
                if (!err) {
                        err = -EIO;
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