* [PATCH] ufs: free cylinder group structures on late mount failure
@ 2026-11-04 9:09 Joseph Qi
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From: Joseph Qi @ 2026-11-04 9:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jan Kara, Christian Brauner; +Cc: linux-kernel, Joseph Qi, stable
ufs_fill_super() reads the cylinder group structures before it creates
the root dentry, so that a failure there no longer publishes a
superblock whose s_fs_info has already been freed. The two failures
that remain after the read, a failed ufs_iget() and a failed
d_make_root(), still jump to the label that only frees the in-core
superblock information.
Everything ufs_read_cylinder_structures() allocated is released by
ufs_put_super_internal(), which runs from ufs_put_super(), and
generic_shutdown_super() calls that only inside its if (sb->s_root)
block. With s_root left NULL, the s_cssize allocation behind s_csp, the
s_ncg buffer heads behind s_ucg[] and the UFS_MAX_GROUP_LOADED s_ucpi[]
entries are leaked, once per mount attempt.
Neither failure needs an I/O error to happen: ufs_iget() rejects a root
inode number that falls outside the s_ncg * s_ipg range the image
claims, and s_ipg is not validated.
Give those two paths their own label, and move the unwind that
ufs_read_cylinder_structures() already performs on its own failure into
a helper that both call. The helper also clears the pointers it
releases.
Fixes: 55a4c98abb96 ("ufs: create the root dentry after loading cylinder metadata")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
---
fs/ufs/super.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ufs/super.c b/fs/ufs/super.c
index 3569ac92b065b..50adfef5f2aa9 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/super.c
@@ -448,6 +448,32 @@ static void ufs_setup_cstotal(struct super_block *sb)
UFSD("EXIT\n");
}
+/*
+ * Release everything ufs_read_cylinder_structures() allocated. Besides its
+ * own error path this is needed when a mount fails after the cylinder groups
+ * have been read: s_root is still NULL then, so generic_shutdown_super() never
+ * calls put_super and ufs_put_super_internal() does not run.
+ */
+static void ufs_free_cylinder_structures(struct super_block *sb)
+{
+ struct ufs_sb_info *sbi = UFS_SB(sb);
+ struct ufs_sb_private_info *uspi = sbi->s_uspi;
+ unsigned int i;
+
+ if (sbi->s_ucg) {
+ for (i = 0; i < uspi->s_ncg; i++)
+ brelse(sbi->s_ucg[i]);
+ kfree(sbi->s_ucg);
+ sbi->s_ucg = NULL;
+ for (i = 0; i < UFS_MAX_GROUP_LOADED; i++) {
+ kfree(sbi->s_ucpi[i]);
+ sbi->s_ucpi[i] = NULL;
+ }
+ }
+ kfree(sbi->s_csp);
+ sbi->s_csp = NULL;
+}
+
/*
* Read on-disk structures associated with cylinder groups
*/
@@ -511,15 +537,7 @@ static int ufs_read_cylinder_structures(struct super_block *sb)
return 1;
failed:
- kfree (base);
- if (sbi->s_ucg) {
- for (i = 0; i < uspi->s_ncg; i++)
- if (sbi->s_ucg[i])
- brelse (sbi->s_ucg[i]);
- kfree (sbi->s_ucg);
- for (i = 0; i < UFS_MAX_GROUP_LOADED; i++)
- kfree (sbi->s_ucpi[i]);
- }
+ ufs_free_cylinder_structures(sb);
UFSD("EXIT (FAILED)\n");
return 0;
}
@@ -1211,17 +1229,19 @@ static int ufs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
inode = ufs_iget(sb, UFS_ROOTINO);
if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(inode);
- goto failed;
+ goto failed_cg;
}
sb->s_root = d_make_root(inode);
if (!sb->s_root) {
ret = -ENOMEM;
- goto failed;
+ goto failed_cg;
}
UFSD("EXIT\n");
return 0;
+failed_cg:
+ ufs_free_cylinder_structures(sb);
failed:
if (ubh)
ubh_brelse_uspi (uspi);
--
2.39.3
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