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From: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Luis Henriques <luis@igalia.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ufs: free the buffer head container in ubh_bforget
Date: Sat,  1 Aug 2026 05:41:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260801024119.12667-1-ali@iusegentoo.com> (raw)

ubh_bforget() forgets the buffer heads referenced by a struct
ufs_buffer_head but never frees the container itself, unlike its
sibling ubh_brelse() which calls kfree() on the way out. The only
caller, free_full_branch(), allocates the container through ubh_bread()
while releasing an indirect block during truncate, so every fully
removed indirect block leaks one ufs_buffer_head. Truncating or
unlinking a large file then leaks one allocation per indirect block,
which kmemleak reports with a free_full_branch, ufs_truncate_blocks,
ufs_evict_inode backtrace.

Free the container after forgetting its buffers, mirroring ubh_brelse().

Luis Henriques posted a fix for this leak in 2018, but it was never
applied while fs/ufs had no active maintainer, and the leak is still
present.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20180705150415.25070-1-lhenriques@suse.com/
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <ali@iusegentoo.com>
---
 fs/ufs/util.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ufs/util.c b/fs/ufs/util.c
index dff6f7461..3c65fbef6 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/util.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/util.c
@@ -117,8 +117,10 @@ void ubh_bforget (struct ufs_buffer_head * ubh)
 	unsigned i;
 	if (!ubh) 
 		return;
-	for ( i = 0; i < ubh->count; i++ ) if ( ubh->bh[i] ) 
-		bforget (ubh->bh[i]);
+	for (i = 0; i < ubh->count; i++)
+		if (ubh->bh[i])
+			bforget(ubh->bh[i]);
+	kfree(ubh);
 }
  
 int ubh_buffer_dirty (struct ufs_buffer_head * ubh)
-- 
2.54.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-01  2:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-01  2:41 Ali Ahmet Memis [this message]
2026-08-02  9:28 ` Luis Henriques
2026-08-02 11:41   ` [PATCH v2] " Ali Ahmet Memis
2026-08-02 11:45   ` [PATCH] " Ali Ahmet Memis

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