[PATCH] dm thin metadata: fix superblock refcount leak on snapshot shadow failure

Genjian <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:05:26 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.dm-devel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Genjian Zhang <[email protected]>

__reserve_metadata_snap() increments THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION in the
metadata space map before shadowing it. When dm_tm_shadow_block()
fails, a reference is leaked in the metadata space map.

Fix by adding the missing dm_sm_dec_block().

Fixes: cc8394d86f04 ("dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata")
Signed-off-by: Genjian Zhang <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
index b6a2d2081a24..b194fb57d158 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -1353,8 +1353,10 @@ static int __reserve_metadata_snap(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd)
 	dm_sm_inc_block(pmd->metadata_sm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION);
 	r = dm_tm_shadow_block(pmd->tm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION,
 			       &sb_validator, &copy, &inc);
-	if (r)
+	if (r) {
+		dm_sm_dec_block(pmd->metadata_sm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION);
 		return r;
+	}
 
 	BUG_ON(!inc);
 
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