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From: Andrey Albershteyn <aalbersh@kernel.org>
To: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, aalbersh@kernel.org
Cc: bestswngs@gmail.com, brauner@kernel.org, cem@kernel.org,
	chuck.lever@oracle.com, cmaiolino@redhat.com,
	dawei.feng@seu.edu.cn, djwong@kernel.org,
	gaoyingjie@uniontech.com, hch@lst.de, jiapenglin@tencent.com,
	roland.mainz@nrubsig.org, xmei5@asu.edu
Subject: [PATCH 17/21] xfs: fix memory leak in xfs_dqinode_metadir_create()
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:40:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260824104022.420566-18-aalbersh@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260824104022.420566-1-aalbersh@kernel.org>

From: Dawei Feng <dawei.feng@seu.edu.cn>

Source kernel commit: 45de375b25060edf46e20abb36521ba530336ceb

If xfs_metadir_create() fails in xfs_dqinode_metadir_create(), the current
code returns directly, leaking the allocated update and transaction state.
If the subsequent commit fails, the caller-owned inode reference is left
behind.

Fix this memory leak by routing the create failure path through
xfs_metadir_cancel().  For both create and commit failures, finish and
release any inode returned to the caller, mirroring the unwind pattern in
xfs_metadir_mkdir().

The bug was first flagged by an experimental analysis tool we are
developing for kernel memory-management bugs while analyzing
v6.13-rc1. The tool is still under development and is not yet publicly
available. Manual inspection confirms that the bug is still
present in v7.1.1.

An x86_64 allyesconfig build showed no new warnings. Runtime validation
used kprobe fault injection during `mount -o uquota` on a metadir XFS
image. Injecting xfs_metadir_create() reproduced the old active-update path
that left mount stuck later in mount setup; after this change, the same
injection reported cancel_hits=1 and irele_hits=1. Injecting
xfs_metadir_commit() exercised the old inode-reference leak path; after
this change, it reported irele_hits=1.

Fixes: e80fbe1ad8ef ("xfs: use metadir for quota inodes")
Signed-off-by: Dawei Feng <dawei.feng@seu.edu.cn>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
---
 libxfs/xfs_dquot_buf.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libxfs/xfs_dquot_buf.c b/libxfs/xfs_dquot_buf.c
index 329aceca005d..5022073e0c4a 100644
--- a/libxfs/xfs_dquot_buf.c
+++ b/libxfs/xfs_dquot_buf.c
@@ -434,17 +434,27 @@ xfs_dqinode_metadir_create(
 
 	error = xfs_metadir_create(&upd, S_IFREG);
 	if (error)
-		return error;
+		goto out_cancel;
 
 	xfs_trans_log_inode(upd.tp, upd.ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
 
 	error = xfs_metadir_commit(&upd);
 	if (error)
-		return error;
+		goto out_irele;
 
 	xfs_finish_inode_setup(upd.ip);
 	*ipp = upd.ip;
 	return 0;
+
+out_cancel:
+	xfs_metadir_cancel(&upd, error);
+out_irele:
+	/* Have to finish setting up the inode to ensure it's deleted. */
+	if (upd.ip) {
+		xfs_finish_inode_setup(upd.ip);
+		xfs_irele(upd.ip);
+	}
+	return error;
 }
 
 #ifndef __KERNEL__
-- 
2.55.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-08-24 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-24 10:39 [PATCH 00/21] xfsprogs: libxfs sync for v7.2 Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:39 ` [PATCH 01/21] xfs: Report case sensitivity in fileattr_get Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 02/21] xfs: fix exchmaps reservation limit check Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 03/21] xfs: add a XFS_INODE_TO_AGNO helper Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 04/21] xfs: add a XFS_INODE_TO_AGINO helper Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 05/21] xfs: add a XFS_INO_TO_FSB helper Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 06/21] xfs: add a xfs_rmap_inode_bmbt_owner Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 07/21] xfs: add a xfs_rmap_inode_owner helper Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 08/21] xfs: remove the i_ino field in struct xfs_inode Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 09/21] xfs: cleanup xfs_imap Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 10/21] xfs: remove im_len field in struct xfs_imap Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 11/21] xfs: massage xfs_imap_to_bp into xfs_read_icluster Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 12/21] xfs: store an agbno in struct xfs_imap Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 13/21] xfs: mark struct xfs_imap as __packed Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 14/21] xfs: fix pointer arithmetic error on 32-bit systems Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 15/21] xfs: pass back updated nb from xfs_growfs_compute_deltas Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 16/21] xfs: cleanup xfs_growfs_compute_deltas Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` Andrey Albershteyn [this message]
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 18/21] xfs: fix null pointer dereference in tracepoint Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 19/21] xfs: fix off-by-one in rtrefcount btree root level validation Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 20/21] xfs: fix exchange-range reflink flag clearing issue with INO1_WRITTEN Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 10:40 ` [PATCH 21/21] xfs: check v5 superblock features early Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-24 18:14 ` [PATCH 00/21] xfsprogs: libxfs sync for v7.2 Darrick J. Wong
2026-09-03  8:31   ` Andrey Albershteyn
2026-08-26  5:13 ` Christoph Hellwig

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