This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_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: jffs2-fix-memory-leak-in-jffs2_do_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. commit d732f6751f6f80a114784a9fc592bd4430ab0ba9 Author: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Apr 12 17:38:16 2022 +0800 jffs2: fix memory leak in jffs2_do_fill_super [ Upstream commit c14adb1cf70a984ed081c67e9d27bc3caad9537c ] If jffs2_iget() or d_make_root() in jffs2_do_fill_super() returns an error, we can observe the following kmemleak report: -------------------------------------------- unreferenced object 0xffff888105a65340 (size 64): comm "mount", pid 710, jiffies 4302851558 (age 58.239s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff859c45e5>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x475/0x8a0 [<ffffffff86160146>] jffs2_sum_init+0x96/0x1a0 [<ffffffff86140e25>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x745/0x2120 [<ffffffff86149fec>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x35c/0x810 [<ffffffff8614aae9>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2b9/0x3b0 [...] unreferenced object 0xffff8881bd7f0000 (size 65536): comm "mount", pid 710, jiffies 4302851558 (age 58.239s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb bb ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff858579ba>] kmalloc_order+0xda/0x110 [<ffffffff85857a11>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x21/0x130 [<ffffffff859c2ed1>] __kmalloc+0x711/0x8a0 [<ffffffff86160189>] jffs2_sum_init+0xd9/0x1a0 [<ffffffff86140e25>] jffs2_do_mount_fs+0x745/0x2120 [<ffffffff86149fec>] jffs2_do_fill_super+0x35c/0x810 [<ffffffff8614aae9>] jffs2_fill_super+0x2b9/0x3b0 [...] -------------------------------------------- This is because the resources allocated in jffs2_sum_init() are not released. Call jffs2_sum_exit() to release these resources to solve the problem. Fixes: e631ddba5887 ("[JFFS2] Add erase block summary support (mount time improvement)") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/jffs2/fs.c b/fs/jffs2/fs.c index 7170de78cd26..db210989784d 100644 --- a/fs/jffs2/fs.c +++ b/fs/jffs2/fs.c @@ -603,6 +603,7 @@ int jffs2_do_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc) jffs2_free_raw_node_refs(c); kvfree(c->blocks); jffs2_clear_xattr_subsystem(c); + jffs2_sum_exit(c); out_inohash: kfree(c->inocache_list); out_wbuf: