1) errors from ext4_getblk() should not be propagated to caller unless we are really sure that we would've gotten the same error in non-RCU pathwalk. 2) we leak buffer_heads if ext4_getblk() is successful, but bh is not uptodate. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/symlink.c | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/symlink.c b/fs/ext4/symlink.c index 75bf1f88843c..645240cc0229 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/symlink.c +++ b/fs/ext4/symlink.c @@ -92,10 +92,12 @@ static const char *ext4_get_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, if (!dentry) { bh = ext4_getblk(NULL, inode, 0, EXT4_GET_BLOCKS_CACHED_NOWAIT); - if (IS_ERR(bh)) - return ERR_CAST(bh); - if (!bh || !ext4_buffer_uptodate(bh)) + if (IS_ERR(bh) || !bh) return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); + if (!ext4_buffer_uptodate(bh)) { + brelse(bh); + return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD); + } } else { bh = ext4_bread(NULL, inode, 0, 0); if (IS_ERR(bh)) -- 2.39.2