3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit de59fae0043f07de5d25e02ca360f7d57bfa5866 upstream. Fixes: dc6982ff4db1 ("ext4: refactor code to read directory blocks ...") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 3.9 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/namei.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ static struct buffer_head *__ext4_read_d if (!is_dx_block && type == INDEX) { ext4_error_inode(inode, __func__, line, block, "directory leaf block found instead of index block"); + brelse(bh); return ERR_PTR(-EIO); } if (!ext4_has_metadata_csum(inode->i_sb) ||