The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: Fix handle refcount leak in two exception handling paths has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-fix-handle-refcount-leak-in-two-exception-handling-paths.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-fix-handle-refcount-leak-in-two-exception-handling-paths.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-fix-handle-refcount-leak-in-two-exception-handling-paths.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Chenyuan Mi <cymi20@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2: Fix handle refcount leak in two exception handling paths The reference counting issue happens in two exception handling paths of ocfs2_replay_truncate_records(). When executing these two exception handling paths, the function forgets to decrease the refcount of handle increased by ocfs2_start_trans(), causing a refcount leak. Fix this issue by using ocfs2_commit_trans() to decrease the refcount of handle in two handling paths. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210908102055.10168-1-cymi20@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Chenyuan Mi <cymi20@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xin Tan <tanxin.ctf@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wengang Wang <wen.gang.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Changwei Ge <gechangwei@xxxxxxx> Cc: Gang He <ghe@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jun Piao <piaojun@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/alloc.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c~ocfs2-fix-handle-refcount-leak-in-two-exception-handling-paths +++ a/fs/ocfs2/alloc.c @@ -5940,6 +5940,7 @@ static int ocfs2_replay_truncate_records status = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(tl_inode), tl_bh, OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE); if (status < 0) { + ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle); mlog_errno(status); goto bail; } @@ -5964,6 +5965,7 @@ static int ocfs2_replay_truncate_records data_alloc_bh, start_blk, num_clusters); if (status < 0) { + ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle); mlog_errno(status); goto bail; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cymi20@xxxxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-fix-handle-refcount-leak-in-two-exception-handling-paths.patch