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Commit 76dc7761 authored by Baokun Li's avatar Baokun Li Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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ext4: fix mb_cache_entry's e_refcnt leak in ext4_xattr_block_cache_find()

commit 0c0b4a49

 upstream.

Syzbot reports a warning as follows:

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WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5075 at fs/mbcache.c:419 mb_cache_destroy+0x224/0x290
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 5075 Comm: syz-executor199 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-gb947cc5bf6d7
RIP: 0010:mb_cache_destroy+0x224/0x290 fs/mbcache.c:419
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ext4_put_super+0x6d4/0xcd0 fs/ext4/super.c:1375
 generic_shutdown_super+0x136/0x2d0 fs/super.c:641
 kill_block_super+0x44/0x90 fs/super.c:1675
 ext4_kill_sb+0x68/0xa0 fs/ext4/super.c:7327
[...]
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This is because when finding an entry in ext4_xattr_block_cache_find(), if
ext4_sb_bread() returns -ENOMEM, the ce's e_refcnt, which has already grown
in the __entry_find(), won't be put away, and eventually trigger the above
issue in mb_cache_destroy() due to reference count leakage.

So call mb_cache_entry_put() on the -ENOMEM error branch as a quick fix.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+dd43bd0f7474512edc47@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=dd43bd0f7474512edc47
Fixes: fb265c9c

 ("ext4: add ext4_sb_bread() to disambiguate ENOMEM cases")
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarBaokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240504075526.2254349-2-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 08018302
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