This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: avoid potential buffer_head leak in __ext4_new_inode() to the 6.10-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-avoid-potential-buffer_head-leak-in-__ext4_new_.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 7cd582340013d47c5ba761c52e9f07c0fab7d428 Author: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 20 21:22:29 2024 +0800 ext4: avoid potential buffer_head leak in __ext4_new_inode() [ Upstream commit 227d31b9214d1b9513383cf6c7180628d4b3b61f ] If a group is marked EXT4_GROUP_INFO_IBITMAP_CORRUPT after it's inode bitmap buffer_head was successfully verified, then __ext4_new_inode() will get a valid inode_bitmap_bh of a corrupted group from ext4_read_inode_bitmap() in which case inode_bitmap_bh misses a release. Hnadle "IS_ERR(inode_bitmap_bh)" and group corruption separately like how ext4_free_inode() does to avoid buffer_head leak. Fixes: 9008a58e5dce ("ext4: make the bitmap read routines return real error codes") Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240820132234.2759926-3-shikemeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c index bf14450da35f4..de04f4400d926 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c +++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c @@ -1054,12 +1054,13 @@ struct inode *__ext4_new_inode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, brelse(inode_bitmap_bh); inode_bitmap_bh = ext4_read_inode_bitmap(sb, group); /* Skip groups with suspicious inode tables */ - if (((!(sbi->s_mount_state & EXT4_FC_REPLAY)) - && EXT4_MB_GRP_IBITMAP_CORRUPT(grp)) || - IS_ERR(inode_bitmap_bh)) { + if (IS_ERR(inode_bitmap_bh)) { inode_bitmap_bh = NULL; goto next_group; } + if (!(sbi->s_mount_state & EXT4_FC_REPLAY) && + EXT4_MB_GRP_IBITMAP_CORRUPT(grp)) + goto next_group; repeat_in_this_group: ret2 = find_inode_bit(sb, group, inode_bitmap_bh, &ino);