This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes() to the 6.0-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: btrfs-fix-inode-list-leak-during-backref-walking-at-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.0 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 173b6de7b17548c748eb14986c80f23cbf43e5c9 Author: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Nov 1 16:15:38 2022 +0000 btrfs: fix inode list leak during backref walking at find_parent_nodes() [ Upstream commit 92876eec382a0f19f33d09d2c939e9ca49038ae5 ] During backref walking, at find_parent_nodes(), if we are dealing with a data extent and we get an error while resolving the indirect backrefs, at resolve_indirect_refs(), or in the while loop that iterates over the refs in the direct refs rbtree, we end up leaking the inode lists attached to the direct refs we have in the direct refs rbtree that were not yet added to the refs ulist passed as argument to find_parent_nodes(). Since they were not yet added to the refs ulist and prelim_release() does not free the lists, on error the caller can only free the lists attached to the refs that were added to the refs ulist, all the remaining refs get their inode lists never freed, therefore leaking their memory. Fix this by having prelim_release() always free any attached inode list to each ref found in the rbtree, and have find_parent_nodes() set the ref's inode list to NULL once it transfers ownership of the inode list to a ref added to the refs ulist passed to find_parent_nodes(). Fixes: 86d5f9944252 ("btrfs: convert prelimary reference tracking to use rbtrees") Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/btrfs/backref.c b/fs/btrfs/backref.c index 90702a74f90c..21c478df6aef 100644 --- a/fs/btrfs/backref.c +++ b/fs/btrfs/backref.c @@ -289,8 +289,10 @@ static void prelim_release(struct preftree *preftree) struct prelim_ref *ref, *next_ref; rbtree_postorder_for_each_entry_safe(ref, next_ref, - &preftree->root.rb_root, rbnode) + &preftree->root.rb_root, rbnode) { + free_inode_elem_list(ref->inode_list); free_pref(ref); + } preftree->root = RB_ROOT_CACHED; preftree->count = 0; @@ -1384,6 +1386,12 @@ static int find_parent_nodes(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, if (ret < 0) goto out; ref->inode_list = eie; + /* + * We transferred the list ownership to the ref, + * so set to NULL to avoid a double free in case + * an error happens after this. + */ + eie = NULL; } ret = ulist_add_merge_ptr(refs, ref->parent, ref->inode_list, @@ -1409,6 +1417,14 @@ static int find_parent_nodes(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, eie->next = ref->inode_list; } eie = NULL; + /* + * We have transferred the inode list ownership from + * this ref to the ref we added to the 'refs' ulist. + * So set this ref's inode list to NULL to avoid + * use-after-free when our caller uses it or double + * frees in case an error happens before we return. + */ + ref->inode_list = NULL; } cond_resched(); }