From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 52abfcbd57eefdd54737fc8c2dc79d8f46d4a3e5 ] If new_blkg allocation raced with blk_policy change and blkg_lookup_check fails, new_blkg is leaked. Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-cgroup.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c index c195365c98172..7b2df042220d4 100644 --- a/block/blk-cgroup.c +++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c @@ -654,6 +654,7 @@ int blkg_conf_prep(struct blkcg *blkcg, const struct blkcg_policy *pol, blkg = blkg_lookup_check(pos, pol, q); if (IS_ERR(blkg)) { ret = PTR_ERR(blkg); + blkg_free(new_blkg); goto fail_unlock; } -- 2.27.0