gdb_bh must be released in case of errors before update of s_group_desc but it must not be released after update of group descriptors because in this case bh can be used later. Fixes 01f795f9e0d6 ("ext4: add online resizing support for meta_bg ...") # 3.7 Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/resize.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/resize.c b/fs/ext4/resize.c index 0a4dc6217e78..7131f35b62d9 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -922,6 +922,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb_meta_bg(struct super_block *sb, sizeof(struct buffer_head *), GFP_NOFS); if (!n_group_desc) { + brelse(gdb_bh); err = -ENOMEM; ext4_warning(sb, "not enough memory for %lu groups", gdb_num + 1); @@ -937,8 +938,6 @@ static int add_new_gdb_meta_bg(struct super_block *sb, kvfree(o_group_desc); BUFFER_TRACE(gdb_bh, "get_write_access"); err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, gdb_bh); - if (unlikely(err)) - brelse(gdb_bh); return err; } -- 2.17.1