This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled bcache: Fix leak of bdev reference to the 4.9-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: bcache-fix-leak-of-bdev-reference.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 4b758df21ee7081ab41448d21d60367efaa625b3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2017 14:25:51 +0800 Subject: bcache: Fix leak of bdev reference From: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> commit 4b758df21ee7081ab41448d21d60367efaa625b3 upstream. If blkdev_get_by_path() in register_bcache() fails, we try to lookup the block device using lookup_bdev() to detect which situation we are in to properly report error. However we never drop the reference returned to us from lookup_bdev(). Fix that. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/bcache/super.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/md/bcache/super.c +++ b/drivers/md/bcache/super.c @@ -1968,6 +1968,8 @@ static ssize_t register_bcache(struct ko else err = "device busy"; mutex_unlock(&bch_register_lock); + if (!IS_ERR(bdev)) + bdput(bdev); if (attr == &ksysfs_register_quiet) goto out; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jack@xxxxxxx are queue-4.9/ext4-fix-quota-inconsistency-during-orphan-cleanup-for-read-only-mounts.patch queue-4.9/bcache-fix-leak-of-bdev-reference.patch queue-4.9/orangefs-don-t-clear-sgid-when-inheriting-acls.patch queue-4.9/ext4-fix-incorrect-quotaoff-if-the-quota-feature-is-enabled.patch