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Commit f6033c5e authored by Xiyu Yang's avatar Xiyu Yang Committed by David Sterba
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btrfs: fix block group leak when removing fails



btrfs_remove_block_group() invokes btrfs_lookup_block_group(), which
returns a local reference of the block group that contains the given
bytenr to "block_group" with increased refcount.

When btrfs_remove_block_group() returns, "block_group" becomes invalid,
so the refcount should be decreased to keep refcount balanced.

The reference counting issue happens in several exception handling paths
of btrfs_remove_block_group(). When those error scenarios occur such as
btrfs_alloc_path() returns NULL, the function forgets to decrease its
refcnt increased by btrfs_lookup_block_group() and will cause a refcnt
leak.

Fix this issue by jumping to "out_put_group" label and calling
btrfs_put_block_group() when those error scenarios occur.

CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.4+
Signed-off-by: default avatarXiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: default avatarXin Tan <tanxin.ctf@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
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