The subvol_name is allocated in btrfs_parse_subvol_options and is consumed and freed in mount_subvol. Add a free to the error paths that don't call mount_subvol so that it is guaranteed that subvol_name is freed when an error happens. Fixes: 312c89fbca06 ("btrfs: cleanup btrfs_mount() using btrfs_mount_root()") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Chris Mason <clm@xxxxxx> Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Cc: linux-btrfs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/btrfs/super.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c index c5586ffd1426..0a3f122dd61f 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/super.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c @@ -1621,6 +1621,7 @@ static struct dentry *btrfs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, flags | SB_RDONLY, device_name, data); if (IS_ERR(mnt_root)) { root = ERR_CAST(mnt_root); + kfree(subvol_name); goto out; } @@ -1630,12 +1631,14 @@ static struct dentry *btrfs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags, if (error < 0) { root = ERR_PTR(error); mntput(mnt_root); + kfree(subvol_name); goto out; } } } if (IS_ERR(mnt_root)) { root = ERR_CAST(mnt_root); + kfree(subvol_name); goto out; } -- 2.17.1