This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_insert_range() to the 4.7-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-fix-memory-leak-in-ext4_insert_range.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From edf15aa180d7b98fe16bd3eda42f9dd0e60dee20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 11:39:52 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_insert_range() From: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> commit edf15aa180d7b98fe16bd3eda42f9dd0e60dee20 upstream. Running xfstests generic/013 with kmemleak gives the following: unreferenced object 0xffff8801d3d27de0 (size 96): comm "fsstress", pid 4941, jiffies 4294860168 (age 53.485s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff818eaaf3>] kmemleak_alloc+0x23/0x40 [<ffffffff81179805>] __kmalloc+0xf5/0x1d0 [<ffffffff8122ef5c>] ext4_find_extent+0x1ec/0x2f0 [<ffffffff8123530c>] ext4_insert_range+0x34c/0x4a0 [<ffffffff81235942>] ext4_fallocate+0x4e2/0x8b0 [<ffffffff81181334>] vfs_fallocate+0x134/0x210 [<ffffffff8118203f>] SyS_fallocate+0x3f/0x60 [<ffffffff818efa9b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Problem seems mitigated by dropping refs and freeing path when there's no path[depth].p_ext Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/extents.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/ext4/extents.c +++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c @@ -5734,6 +5734,9 @@ int ext4_insert_range(struct inode *inod up_write(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_data_sem); goto out_stop; } + } else { + ext4_ext_drop_refs(path); + kfree(path); } ret = ext4_es_remove_extent(inode, offset_lblk, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fabf@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/ext4-fix-memory-leak-in-ext4_insert_range.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html