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btrfs: fix memory leak of qgroup_list in btrfs_add_qgroup_relation
authorShardul Bankar <shardulsb08@gmail.com>
Sat, 25 Oct 2025 20:00:21 +0000 (01:30 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:37:35 +0000 (15:37 -0500)
commita4d9ebe23bcb79d9d057e3c995db73b7b3aae414
treef5c0a44aa4fe96bb6c7a8b06efead87420a5eb35
parent00b56d28dd7f7154bea6fabaadd3a2a7dff3cb66
btrfs: fix memory leak of qgroup_list in btrfs_add_qgroup_relation

[ Upstream commit f260c6aff0b8af236084012d14f9f1bf792ea883 ]

When btrfs_add_qgroup_relation() is called with invalid qgroup levels
(src >= dst), the function returns -EINVAL directly without freeing the
preallocated qgroup_list structure passed by the caller. This causes a
memory leak because the caller unconditionally sets the pointer to NULL
after the call, preventing any cleanup.

The issue occurs because the level validation check happens before the
mutex is acquired and before any error handling path that would free
the prealloc pointer. On this early return, the cleanup code at the
'out' label (which includes kfree(prealloc)) is never reached.

In btrfs_ioctl_qgroup_assign(), the code pattern is:

    prealloc = kzalloc(sizeof(*prealloc), GFP_KERNEL);
    ret = btrfs_add_qgroup_relation(trans, sa->src, sa->dst, prealloc);
    prealloc = NULL;  // Always set to NULL regardless of return value
    ...
    kfree(prealloc);  // This becomes kfree(NULL), does nothing

When the level check fails, 'prealloc' is never freed by either the
callee or the caller, resulting in a 64-byte memory leak per failed
operation. This can be triggered repeatedly by an unprivileged user
with access to a writable btrfs mount, potentially exhausting kernel
memory.

Fix this by freeing prealloc before the early return, ensuring prealloc
is always freed on all error paths.

Fixes: 4addc1ffd67a ("btrfs: qgroup: preallocate memory before adding a relation")
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Shardul Bankar <shardulsb08@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
fs/btrfs/qgroup.c