[PATCH] exfat: clean up new entry on add entry failure

Yichong Chen <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:55:04 +0800
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.exfat,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
exfat_add_entry() initializes a new directory entry set before writing
it with exfat_put_dentry_set().  If the write fails, mkdir/create returns
an error but a partially written entry may be left behind.

For non-zero-size directories, the failure also happens after a cluster
has been allocated for the new directory.  That cluster needs to be
released if the mkdir fails.

Clean up the new entry best-effort and free the newly allocated directory
cluster when one was allocated.

Signed-off-by: Yichong Chen <[email protected]>
---
 fs/exfat/namei.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/exfat/namei.c b/fs/exfat/namei.c
index 038bc6fed681..7bd745090f92 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/namei.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/namei.c
@@ -471,6 +471,7 @@ static int exfat_add_entry(struct inode *inode, const char *path,
 	struct exfat_entry_set_cache es;
 	int clu_size = 0;
 	unsigned int start_clu = EXFAT_FREE_CLUSTER;
+	bool dir_allocated = false;
 
 	ret = exfat_resolve_path(inode, path, &uniname);
 	if (ret)
@@ -497,6 +498,7 @@ static int exfat_add_entry(struct inode *inode, const char *path,
 		}
 		start_clu = clu.dir;
 		clu_size = sbi->cluster_size;
+		dir_allocated = true;
 	}
 
 	/* update the directory entry */
@@ -507,8 +509,16 @@ static int exfat_add_entry(struct inode *inode, const char *path,
 	exfat_init_ext_entry(&es, num_entries, &uniname, NULL, 0);
 
 	ret = exfat_put_dentry_set(&es, IS_DIRSYNC(inode));
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret) {
+		if (!exfat_get_dentry_set(&es, sb, &info->dir, dentry,
+					  ES_ALL_ENTRIES)) {
+			exfat_remove_entries(inode, &es, ES_IDX_FILE, false);
+			exfat_put_dentry_set(&es, false);
+		}
+		if (dir_allocated)
+			exfat_free_cluster(inode, &clu);
 		goto out;
+	}
 
 	info->entry = dentry;
 	info->flags = ALLOC_NO_FAT_CHAIN;
-- 
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