The ceph_inode_xattr needs to be released when removing an xattr. Easily reproducible running the 'generic/020' test from xfstests or simply by doing: attr -s attr0 -V 0 /mnt/test && attr -r attr0 /mnt/test While there, also fix the error path. Here's the kmemleak splat: unreferenced object 0xffff88001f86fbc0 (size 64): comm "attr", pid 244, jiffies 4294904246 (age 98.464s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 40 fa 86 1f 00 88 ff ff 80 32 38 1f 00 88 ff ff @........28..... 00 01 00 00 00 00 ad de 00 02 00 00 00 00 ad de ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff81560199>] kmemleak_alloc+0x49/0xa0 [<ffffffff810f3e5b>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x9b/0xf0 [<ffffffff812b157e>] __ceph_setxattr+0x17e/0x820 [<ffffffff812b1c57>] ceph_set_xattr_handler+0x37/0x40 [<ffffffff8111fb4b>] __vfs_removexattr+0x4b/0x60 [<ffffffff8111fd37>] vfs_removexattr+0x77/0xd0 [<ffffffff8111fdd1>] removexattr+0x41/0x60 [<ffffffff8111fe65>] path_removexattr+0x75/0xa0 [<ffffffff81120aeb>] SyS_lremovexattr+0xb/0x10 [<ffffffff81564b20>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x94 [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/ceph/xattr.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/ceph/xattr.c b/fs/ceph/xattr.c index febc28f9e2c2..75267cdd5dfd 100644 --- a/fs/ceph/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ceph/xattr.c @@ -392,6 +392,7 @@ static int __set_xattr(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, if (update_xattr) { int err = 0; + if (xattr && (flags & XATTR_CREATE)) err = -EEXIST; else if (!xattr && (flags & XATTR_REPLACE)) @@ -399,12 +400,14 @@ static int __set_xattr(struct ceph_inode_info *ci, if (err) { kfree(name); kfree(val); + kfree(*newxattr); return err; } if (update_xattr < 0) { if (xattr) __remove_xattr(ci, xattr); kfree(name); + kfree(*newxattr); return 0; } }