From: Li Chen <me@linux.beauty>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
linux-block@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] loop: fix backing file reference leak on validation error
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 20:12:31 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250926121231.32549-1-me@linux.beauty> (raw)
loop_change_fd() and loop_configure() call loop_check_backing_file()
to validate the new backing file. If validation fails, the reference
acquired by fget() was not dropped, leaking a file reference.
Fix this by calling fput(file) before returning the error.
Signed-off-by: Li Chen <chenl311@chinatelecom.cn>
---
drivers/block/loop.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 053a086d547e..94ec7f747f36 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -551,8 +551,10 @@ static int loop_change_fd(struct loop_device *lo, struct block_device *bdev,
return -EBADF;
error = loop_check_backing_file(file);
- if (error)
+ if (error) {
+ fput(file);
return error;
+ }
/* suppress uevents while reconfiguring the device */
dev_set_uevent_suppress(disk_to_dev(lo->lo_disk), 1);
@@ -993,8 +995,10 @@ static int loop_configure(struct loop_device *lo, blk_mode_t mode,
return -EBADF;
error = loop_check_backing_file(file);
- if (error)
+ if (error) {
+ fput(file);
return error;
+ }
is_loop = is_loop_device(file);
--
2.51.0
next reply other threads:[~2025-09-26 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-26 12:12 Li Chen [this message]
2025-09-28 1:54 ` [PATCH] loop: fix backing file reference leak on validation error yangerkun
2025-09-29 12:54 ` Li Chen
2025-09-28 13:48 ` Markus Elfring
2025-09-29 12:53 ` Li Chen
2025-09-29 15:01 ` Ming Lei
2025-09-30 0:05 ` Li Chen
2025-09-29 1:11 ` Yu Kuai
2025-09-29 12:56 ` Li Chen
2025-09-29 5:14 ` Ming Lei
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