This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
nbd: fix a block_device refcount leak in nbd_release
to the 5.9-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:
nbd-fix-a-block_device-refcount-leak-in-nbd_release.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit e0bfecf82bee9cd8311a1383933315cd98200fa1
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon Nov 9 18:30:59 2020 +0100
nbd: fix a block_device refcount leak in nbd_release
[ Upstream commit 2bd645b2d3f0bacadaa6037f067538e1cd4e42ef ]
bdget_disk needs to be paired with bdput to not leak a reference
on the block device inode.
Fixes: 08ba91ee6e2c ("nbd: Add the nbd NBD_DISCONNECT_ON_CLOSE config flag.")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index d76fca629c143..36c46fe078556 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -1517,6 +1517,7 @@ static void nbd_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode)
if (test_bit(NBD_RT_DISCONNECT_ON_CLOSE, &nbd->config->runtime_flags) &&
bdev->bd_openers == 0)
nbd_disconnect_and_put(nbd);
+ bdput(bdev);
nbd_config_put(nbd);
nbd_put(nbd);
