From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 6.1.y] xfs: fix a resource leak in xfs_alloc_buftarg()
Date: Fri, 8 May 2026 10:52:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260508145206.1512706-1-sashal@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026050314-humming-baboon-4d05@gregkh>
From: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
[ Upstream commit 29a7b2614357393b176ef06ba5bc3ff5afc8df69 ]
In the error path, call fs_put_dax() to drop the DAX
device reference.
Fixes: 6f643c57d57c ("xfs: implement ->notify_failure() for XFS")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Haoxiang Li <lihaoxiang@isrc.iscas.ac.cn>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>
[ kept `kmem_free(btp)` and `return NULL` instead of `kfree(btp)`/`ERR_PTR(error)` ]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
index 257945cdf63b8..34e476301342c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_buf.c
@@ -2036,6 +2036,7 @@ xfs_alloc_buftarg(
error_lru:
list_lru_destroy(&btp->bt_lru);
error_free:
+ fs_put_dax(btp->bt_daxdev, mp);
kmem_free(btp);
return NULL;
}
--
2.53.0
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2026-05-03 11:45 FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfs: fix a resource leak in xfs_alloc_buftarg()" failed to apply to 6.1-stable tree gregkh
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