This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_fill_super to the 5.10-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-fix-memory-leak-in-ext4_fill_super.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From afd09b617db3786b6ef3dc43e28fe728cfea84df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 07:55:33 +0000 Subject: ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_fill_super From: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx> commit afd09b617db3786b6ef3dc43e28fe728cfea84df upstream. Buffer head references must be released before calling kill_bdev(); otherwise the buffer head (and its page referenced by b_data) will not be freed by kill_bdev, and subsequently that bh will be leaked. If blocksizes differ, sb_set_blocksize() will kill current buffers and page cache by using kill_bdev(). And then super block will be reread again but using correct blocksize this time. sb_set_blocksize() didn't fully free superblock page and buffer head, and being busy, they were not freed and instead leaked. This can easily be reproduced by calling an infinite loop of: systemctl start <ext4_on_lvm>.mount, and systemctl stop <ext4_on_lvm>.mount ... since systemd creates a cgroup for each slice which it mounts, and the bh leak get amplified by a dying memory cgroup that also never gets freed, and memory consumption is much more easily noticed. Fixes: ce40733ce93d ("ext4: Check for return value from sb_set_blocksize") Fixes: ac27a0ec112a ("ext4: initial copy of files from ext3") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210521075533.95732-1-amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/super.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -4451,14 +4451,20 @@ static int ext4_fill_super(struct super_ } if (sb->s_blocksize != blocksize) { + /* + * bh must be released before kill_bdev(), otherwise + * it won't be freed and its page also. kill_bdev() + * is called by sb_set_blocksize(). + */ + brelse(bh); /* Validate the filesystem blocksize */ if (!sb_set_blocksize(sb, blocksize)) { ext4_msg(sb, KERN_ERR, "bad block size %d", blocksize); + bh = NULL; goto failed_mount; } - brelse(bh); logical_sb_block = sb_block * EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_SIZE; offset = do_div(logical_sb_block, blocksize); bh = ext4_sb_bread_unmovable(sb, logical_sb_block); @@ -5181,8 +5187,9 @@ failed_mount: kfree(get_qf_name(sb, sbi, i)); #endif fscrypt_free_dummy_policy(&sbi->s_dummy_enc_policy); - ext4_blkdev_remove(sbi); + /* ext4_blkdev_remove() calls kill_bdev(), release bh before it. */ brelse(bh); + ext4_blkdev_remove(sbi); out_fail: sb->s_fs_info = NULL; kfree(sbi->s_blockgroup_lock); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amakhalov@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/ext4-fix-memory-leak-in-ext4_fill_super.patch