4.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 61a9c11e5e7a0dab5381afa5d9d4dd5ebf18f7a0 upstream. Fixes: 01f795f9e0d6 ("ext4: add online resizing support for meta_bg ...") Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 3.7 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/resize.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/resize.c +++ b/fs/ext4/resize.c @@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ static int add_new_gdb_meta_bg(struct su sizeof(struct buffer_head *), GFP_NOFS); if (!n_group_desc) { + brelse(gdb_bh); err = -ENOMEM; ext4_warning(sb, "not enough memory for %lu groups", gdb_num + 1); @@ -914,8 +915,6 @@ static int add_new_gdb_meta_bg(struct su kvfree(o_group_desc); BUFFER_TRACE(gdb_bh, "get_write_access"); err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, gdb_bh); - if (unlikely(err)) - brelse(gdb_bh); return err; }