The reference count of the old buffer head should be decremented on path that fails to get the new buffer head. Fixes: 6b4657667ba0 ("fs/affs: add rename exchange") Signed-off-by: Pan Bian <bianpan2016@xxxxxxx> --- fs/affs/namei.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/affs/namei.c b/fs/affs/namei.c index 41c5749f4db7..5400a876d73f 100644 --- a/fs/affs/namei.c +++ b/fs/affs/namei.c @@ -460,8 +460,10 @@ affs_xrename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, return -EIO; bh_new = affs_bread(sb, d_inode(new_dentry)->i_ino); - if (!bh_new) + if (!bh_new) { + affs_brelse(bh_old); return -EIO; + } /* Remove old header from its parent directory. */ affs_lock_dir(old_dir); -- 2.17.1