This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: avoid buffer leak in ext4_orphan_add() after prior errors to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ext4-avoid-buffer-leak-in-ext4_orphan_add-after-prior-errors.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From feaf264ce7f8d54582e2f66eb82dd9dd124c94f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 17:01:36 -0500 Subject: ext4: avoid buffer leak in ext4_orphan_add() after prior errors From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit feaf264ce7f8d54582e2f66eb82dd9dd124c94f3 upstream. Fixes: d745a8c20c1f ("ext4: reduce contention on s_orphan_lock") Fixes: 6e3617e579e0 ("ext4: Handle non empty on-disk orphan link") Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 2.6.34 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -2842,7 +2842,9 @@ int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, st list_del_init(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_orphan); mutex_unlock(&sbi->s_orphan_lock); } - } + } else + brelse(iloc.bh); + jbd_debug(4, "superblock will point to %lu\n", inode->i_ino); jbd_debug(4, "orphan inode %lu will point to %d\n", inode->i_ino, NEXT_ORPHAN(inode)); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ext4-add-missing-brelse-add_new_gdb_meta_bg-s-error-path.patch queue-4.9/ext4-avoid-buffer-leak-in-ext4_orphan_add-after-prior-errors.patch queue-4.9/ext4-release-bs.bh-before-re-using-in-ext4_xattr_block_find.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-missing-cleanup-if-ext4_alloc_flex_bg_array-fails-while-resizing.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-buffer-leak-in-__ext4_read_dirblock-on-error-path.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-possible-inode-leak-in-the-retry-loop-of-ext4_resize_fs.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-possible-leak-of-sbi-s_group_desc_leak-in-error-path.patch queue-4.9/ext4-add-missing-brelse-in-set_flexbg_block_bitmap-s-error-path.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-buffer-leak-in-ext4_xattr_move_to_block-on-error-path.patch queue-4.9/ext4-avoid-potential-extra-brelse-in-setup_new_flex_group_blocks.patch queue-4.9/ext4-add-missing-brelse-update_backups-s-error-path.patch queue-4.9/ext4-avoid-possible-double-brelse-in-add_new_gdb-on-error-path.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-possible-leak-of-s_journal_flag_rwsem-in-error-path.patch