The commit
c8e008b60492 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end")
introduced a refcount leak in when block_csum is false.
ext4_xattr_inode_dec_ref_all() calls ext4_get_inode_loc() to
get iloc.bh, but never releases it with brelse().
Fixes: c8e008b60492 ("ext4: ignore xattrs past end")
Signed-off-by: Sohei Koyama <skoyama@ddn.com>
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@dilger.ca>
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260406074830.8480-1-skoyama@ddn.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
{
struct inode *ea_inode;
struct ext4_xattr_entry *entry;
- struct ext4_iloc iloc;
+ struct ext4_iloc iloc = { .bh = NULL };
bool dirty = false;
unsigned int ea_ino;
int err;
ext4_warning_inode(parent,
"handle dirty metadata err=%d", err);
}
+
+ brelse(iloc.bh);
}
/*