If io_should_retry_thread is false, free the worker before goto fails. Fixes: 3146cba99aa2 ("io-wq: make worker creation resilient against signals") Reported-by: syzbot+65454c239241d3d647da@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Bixuan Cui <cuibixuan@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io-wq.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/io-wq.c b/fs/io-wq.c index d80e4a735677..036953f334d4 100644 --- a/fs/io-wq.c +++ b/fs/io-wq.c @@ -759,6 +759,7 @@ static bool create_io_worker(struct io_wq *wq, struct io_wqe *wqe, int index) if (!IS_ERR(tsk)) { io_init_new_worker(wqe, worker, tsk); } else if (!io_should_retry_thread(PTR_ERR(tsk))) { + kfree(worker); goto fail; } else { INIT_WORK(&worker->work, io_workqueue_create); -- 2.17.1