This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled xfs: fix memory leak in xfs_errortag_init to the 5.15-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: xfs-fix-memory-leak-in-xfs_errortag_init.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit dff838523cc68600aebc163f1ac6bc8fce775c7f Author: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Nov 15 18:28:32 2023 -0800 xfs: fix memory leak in xfs_errortag_init [ Upstream commit cf4f4c12dea7a977a143c8fe5af1740b7f9876f8 ] When `xfs_sysfs_init` returns failed, `mp->m_errortag` needs to free. Otherwise kmemleak would report memory leak after mounting xfs image: unreferenced object 0xffff888101364900 (size 192): comm "mount", pid 13099, jiffies 4294915218 (age 335.207s) 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: [<00000000f08ad25c>] __kmalloc+0x41/0x1b0 [<00000000dca9aeb6>] kmem_alloc+0xfd/0x430 [<0000000040361882>] xfs_errortag_init+0x20/0x110 [<00000000b384a0f6>] xfs_mountfs+0x6ea/0x1a30 [<000000003774395d>] xfs_fs_fill_super+0xe10/0x1a80 [<000000009cf07b6c>] get_tree_bdev+0x3e7/0x700 [<00000000046b5426>] vfs_get_tree+0x8e/0x2e0 [<00000000952ec082>] path_mount+0xf8c/0x1990 [<00000000beb1f838>] do_mount+0xee/0x110 [<000000000e9c41bb>] __x64_sys_mount+0x14b/0x1f0 [<00000000f7bb938e>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [<000000003fcd67a9>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd Fixes: c68401011522 ("xfs: expose errortag knobs via sysfs") Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Chandan Babu R <chandanbabu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_error.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_error.c index 81c445e9489bd..b0ccec92e015d 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_error.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_error.c @@ -224,13 +224,18 @@ int xfs_errortag_init( struct xfs_mount *mp) { + int ret; + mp->m_errortag = kmem_zalloc(sizeof(unsigned int) * XFS_ERRTAG_MAX, KM_MAYFAIL); if (!mp->m_errortag) return -ENOMEM; - return xfs_sysfs_init(&mp->m_errortag_kobj, &xfs_errortag_ktype, - &mp->m_kobj, "errortag"); + ret = xfs_sysfs_init(&mp->m_errortag_kobj, &xfs_errortag_ktype, + &mp->m_kobj, "errortag"); + if (ret) + kmem_free(mp->m_errortag); + return ret; } void