From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Syzbot reports a warning as follows: ============================================ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5075 at fs/mbcache.c:419 mb_cache_destroy+0x224/0x290 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 5075 Comm: syz-executor199 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-gb947cc5bf6d7 RIP: 0010:mb_cache_destroy+0x224/0x290 fs/mbcache.c:419 Call Trace: <TASK> ext4_put_super+0x6d4/0xcd0 fs/ext4/super.c:1375 generic_shutdown_super+0x136/0x2d0 fs/super.c:641 kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1675 ext4_kill_sb+0x68/0xa0 fs/ext4/super.c:7327 [...] ============================================ This is because when finding an entry in ext4_xattr_block_cache_find(), if ext4_sb_bread() returns -ENOMEM, the ce's e_refcnt, which has already grown in the __entry_find(), won't be put away, and eventually trigger the above issue in mb_cache_destroy() due to reference count leakage. So call mb_cache_entry_put() on the -ENOMEM error branch as a quick fix. Reported-by: syzbot+dd43bd0f7474512edc47@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dd43bd0f7474512edc47 Fixes: fb265c9cb49e ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index b67a176bfcf9..9fdd13422073 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -3113,8 +3113,10 @@ ext4_xattr_block_cache_find(struct inode *inode, bh = ext4_sb_bread(inode->i_sb, ce->e_value, REQ_PRIO); if (IS_ERR(bh)) { - if (PTR_ERR(bh) == -ENOMEM) + if (PTR_ERR(bh) == -ENOMEM) { + mb_cache_entry_put(ea_block_cache, ce); return NULL; + } bh = NULL; EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "block %lu read error", (unsigned long)ce->e_value); -- 2.39.2