From: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> There is issue as follows when do setxattr with inject fault: [localhost]#fsck.ext4 -fn /dev/sda e2fsck 1.46.6-rc1 (12-Sep-2022) Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Pass 2: Checking directory structure Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity Pass 4: Checking reference counts Unattached zero-length inode 15. Clear? no Unattached inode 15 Connect to /lost+found? no Pass 5: Checking group summary information /dev/sda: ********** WARNING: Filesystem still has errors ********** /dev/sda: 15/655360 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 66755/2621440 blocks Above issue occur in 'ext4_xattr_inode_create()', if 'ext4_mark_inode_dirty()' failed need to drop inode's i_nlink. Or will lead to inode leak. Signed-off-by: Ye Bin <yebin10@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index 003fe1f2d6a8..734f787ae7ed 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1464,6 +1464,9 @@ static struct inode *ext4_xattr_inode_create(handle_t *handle, if (!err) err = ext4_inode_attach_jinode(ea_inode); if (err) { + if (ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref(handle, ea_inode)) + ext4_warning_inode(ea_inode, + "cleanup dec ref error %d", err); iput(ea_inode); return ERR_PTR(err); } -- 2.31.1