Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] hfsplus, hfs: fix B-tree node leak on hfs_btree_open() error path

[Viacheslav Dubeyko <slava@dubeyko.com>]

On Fri, 2026-10-02 at 11:18 -0700, Viacheslav Dubeyko wrote:
> On Thu, 2026-10-01 at 23:38 +0200, Mahmut Emin Kurhan wrote:
> > This is v3 of the hfsplus/hfs B-tree node leak fix, rebased onto
> > the
> > for-next branch of the HFS/HFS+ tree as requested.
> > 
> > The leak is unchanged: hfs_btree_open() can fail after the head
> > node
> > has
> > been inserted into tree->node_hash, and the error path does a bare
> > kfree(tree) without freeing the hashed nodes. The fix factors the
> > node-hash freeing out of hfs_btree_close() into
> > hfs_bnode_hash_free()
> > and
> > calls it from both hfs_btree_close() and the hfs_btree_open() error
> > path.
> > 
> > Changes since v2:
> >  - rebased on for-next; the extracted helper now wraps the
> > hash_lock
> >    serialized close loop introduced by commit dce0e0248205
> > ("hfs/hfsplus:
> >    serialize B-tree close against folio release") (Slava Dubeyko)
> >  - on the open error path the tree is not published yet, so the
> > lock
> > is
> >    uncontended but kept for consistency
> >  - no functional change to the leak fix itself
> > 
> > v2:
> > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20260930232312.1405042-1-guvenlik@noroxi.com
> > 
> > Mahmut Emin Kurhan (2):
> >   hfsplus: free cached B-tree nodes on hfs_btree_open() error path
> >   hfs: free cached B-tree nodes on hfs_btree_open() error path
> > 
> >  fs/hfs/btree.c     | 40 +++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> >  fs/hfsplus/btree.c | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
> >  2 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
> 
> The patchset looks reasonable to me. Let me run xfstests for the
> patchset. I'll share the results ASAP.
> 

The xfstests HFS+ run hadn't reveal degradation or new issues.

Thanks,
Slava.