4.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit ecaaf408478b6fb4d9986f9b6652f3824e374f4c upstream. Fixes: dec214d00e0d ("ext4: xattr inode deduplication") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 4.13 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -2282,8 +2282,10 @@ static struct buffer_head *ext4_xattr_ge if (!bh) return ERR_PTR(-EIO); error = ext4_xattr_check_block(inode, bh); - if (error) + if (error) { + brelse(bh); return ERR_PTR(error); + } return bh; }