From: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 667e57da358f61b6966e12e925a69e42d912e8bb upstream. I got a memleak report when doing some fuzz test: BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0x607eeac06e78 (size 8): comm "test", pid 295, jiffies 4294735835 (age 31.745s) hex dump (first 8 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ........ backtrace: [<00000000932632e6>] percpu_ref_init+0x2a/0x1b0 [<0000000092ddb796>] __io_uring_register+0x111d/0x22a0 [<00000000eadd6c77>] __x64_sys_io_uring_register+0x17b/0x480 [<00000000591b89a6>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0xa0 [<00000000864a281d>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Call percpu_ref_exit() on error path to avoid refcount memleak. Fixes: 05f3fb3c5397 ("io_uring: avoid ring quiesce for fixed file set unregister and update") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/io_uring.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/io_uring.c +++ b/fs/io_uring.c @@ -6751,6 +6751,7 @@ static int io_sqe_files_register(struct for (i = 0; i < nr_tables; i++) kfree(ctx->file_data->table[i].files); + percpu_ref_exit(&ctx->file_data->refs); kfree(ctx->file_data->table); kfree(ctx->file_data); ctx->file_data = NULL;