This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
jbd2: avoid memleak in jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer
to the 4.19-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:
jbd2-avoid-memleak-in-jbd2_journal_write_metadata_bu.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 573f037891f1fe754b8b112e6127c3380f247989
Author: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue May 14 19:24:30 2024 +0800
jbd2: avoid memleak in jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer
[ Upstream commit cc102aa24638b90e04364d64e4f58a1fa91a1976 ]
The new_bh is from alloc_buffer_head, we should call free_buffer_head to
free it in error case.
Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240514112438.1269037-2-shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/jbd2/journal.c b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
index 629928b19e487..08cff80f8c297 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/journal.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/journal.c
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@ int jbd2_journal_write_metadata_buffer(transaction_t *transaction,
tmp = jbd2_alloc(bh_in->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
if (!tmp) {
brelse(new_bh);
+ free_buffer_head(new_bh);
return -ENOMEM;
}
jbd_lock_bh_state(bh_in);
