[PATCH 4.14 107/125] ext4: fix leaking sysfs kobject after failed mount

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-11-03T21:13:42Z

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>

commit cb8d53d2c97369029cc638c9274ac7be0a316c75 upstream.

ext4_unregister_sysfs() only deletes the kobject. The reference to it
needs to be put separately, like ext4_put_super() does.

This addresses the syzbot report
"memory leak in kobject_set_name_vargs (3)"
(https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=9f864abad79fae7c17e1).

Reported-by: syzbot+9f864abad79fae7c17e1@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 72ba74508b28 ("ext4: release sysfs kobject when failing to enable quotas on mount")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200922162456.93657-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/ext4/super.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -4505,6 +4505,7 @@ cantfind_ext4:

failed_mount8:
ext4_unregister_sysfs(sb);
+ kobject_put(&sbi->s_kobj);
failed_mount7:
ext4_unregister_li_request(sb);
failed_mount6: