From: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:35:59 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: loop: fix backing file reference leak on validation error
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~20^2~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=98b7bf54338b797e3a11e8178ce0e806060d8fa3;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

loop: fix backing file reference leak on validation error

loop_change_fd() and loop_configure() call loop_check_backing_file()
to validate the new backing file. If validation fails, the reference
acquired by fget() was not dropped, leaking a file reference.

Fix this by calling fput(file) before returning the error.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
CC: Yang Erkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Yu Kuai <yukuai1@huaweicloud.com>
Fixes: f5c84eff634b ("loop: Add sanity check for read/write_iter")
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yang Erkun <yangerkun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
---

diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 053a086d547ec..94ec7f747f367 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -551,8 +551,10 @@ static int loop_change_fd(struct loop_device *lo, struct block_device *bdev,
 		return -EBADF;
 
 	error = loop_check_backing_file(file);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		fput(file);
 		return error;
+	}
 
 	/* suppress uevents while reconfiguring the device */
 	dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 1);
@@ -993,8 +995,10 @@ static int loop_configure(struct loop_device *lo, blk_mode_t mode,
 		return -EBADF;
 
 	error = loop_check_backing_file(file);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		fput(file);
 		return error;
+	}
 
 	is_loop = is_loop_device(file);