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btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info_sub_group() error path
authorGuangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Wed, 1 Apr 2026 11:02:19 +0000 (19:02 +0800)
committerDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Tue, 7 Apr 2026 16:56:09 +0000 (18:56 +0200)
commita7449edf96143f192606ec8647e3167e1ecbd728
tree0944939ed7c32fefa9307d964396642016a2a61f
parent3c0c45a4dff73845ba93d41365fc14e45ee32bd7
btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info_sub_group() error path

When kobject_init_and_add() fails, the call chain is:

create_space_info_sub_group()
-> btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type()
-> kobject_init_and_add()
-> failure
-> kobject_put(&sub_group->kobj)
-> space_info_release()
-> kfree(sub_group)

Then control returns to create_space_info_sub_group(), where:

btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() returns error
-> kfree(sub_group)

Thus, sub_group is freed twice.

Keep parent->sub_group[index] = NULL for the failure path, but after
btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() has called kobject_put(), let the
kobject release callback handle the cleanup.

Fixes: f92ee31e031c ("btrfs: introduce btrfs_space_info sub-group")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.18+
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
fs/btrfs/space-info.c