[PATCH 6.1 118/312] ext4: fix iloc.bh leak in ext4_fc_replay_inode() error paths

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-08T18:12:00Z

From: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>

commit ec0a7500d8eace5b4f305fa0c594dd148f0e8d29 upstream.

During code review, Joseph found that ext4_fc_replay_inode() calls
ext4_get_fc_inode_loc() to get the inode location, which holds a
reference to iloc.bh that must be released via brelse().

However, several error paths jump to the 'out' label without
releasing iloc.bh:

- ext4_handle_dirty_metadata() failure
- sync_dirty_buffer() failure
- ext4_mark_inode_used() failure
- ext4_iget() failure

Fix this by introducing an 'out_brelse' label placed just before
the existing 'out' label to ensure iloc.bh is always released.

Additionally, make ext4_fc_replay_inode() propagate errors
properly instead of always returning 0.

Reported-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Fixes: 8016e29f4362 ("ext4: fast commit recovery path")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260323060836.3452660-1-libaokun@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/ext4/fast_commit.c | 13 ++++++++-----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/fast_commit.c
@@ -1623,19 +1623,21 @@ static int ext4_fc_replay_inode(struct s
/* Immediately update the inode on disk. */
ret = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(NULL, NULL, iloc.bh);
if (ret)
- goto out;
+ goto out_brelse;
ret = sync_dirty_buffer(iloc.bh);
if (ret)
- goto out;
+ goto out_brelse;
ret = ext4_mark_inode_used(sb, ino);
if (ret)
- goto out;
+ goto out_brelse;

/* Given that we just wrote the inode on disk, this SHOULD succeed. */
inode = ext4_iget(sb, ino, EXT4_IGET_NORMAL);
if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
ext4_debug("Inode not found.");
- return -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ inode = NULL;
+ ret = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+ goto out_brelse;
}

/*
@@ -1652,13 +1654,14 @@ static int ext4_fc_replay_inode(struct s
ext4_inode_csum_set(inode, ext4_raw_inode(&iloc), EXT4_I(inode));
ret = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(NULL, NULL, iloc.bh);
sync_dirty_buffer(iloc.bh);
+out_brelse:
brelse(iloc.bh);
out:
iput(inode);
if (!ret)
blkdev_issue_flush(sb->s_bdev);

- return 0;
+ return ret;
}

/*