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
next 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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