FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfs: fix a memory leak in xfs_buf_item_init()" failed to apply to 5.15-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 5.15-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.15.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x fc40459de82543b565ebc839dca8f7987f16f62e
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2025122919-balancing-colony-41ee@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.15.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From fc40459de82543b565ebc839dca8f7987f16f62e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:06:01 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: fix a memory leak in xfs_buf_item_init()

xfs_buf_item_get_format() may allocate memory for bip->bli_formats,
free the memory in the error path.

Fixes: c3d5f0c2fb85 ("xfs: complain if anyone tries to create a too-large buffer log item")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Maiolino <cmaiolino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
index 8d85b5eee444..f4c5be67826e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf_item.c
@@ -896,6 +896,7 @@ xfs_buf_item_init(
 		map_size = DIV_ROUND_UP(chunks, NBWORD);
 
 		if (map_size > XFS_BLF_DATAMAP_SIZE) {
+			xfs_buf_item_free_format(bip);
 			kmem_cache_free(xfs_buf_item_cache, bip);
 			xfs_err(mp,
 	"buffer item dirty bitmap (%u uints) too small to reflect %u bytes!",