[PATCH] btrfs: fix memory leak in btrfs_do_encoded_write()

Dmitry Antipov <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:53:52 +0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-btrfs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Local fuzzing of 6.12.94 has found the following memory leak:

Unreferenced object 0xffff888018050a80 (size 64):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 10297, jiffies 4294953601
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff 10 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc a8a6fc29):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
    extent_changeset_alloc fs/btrfs/extent_io.h:207 [inline]
    qgroup_reserve_data+0x1c5/0x7d0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4305
    btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data+0x2e/0xb0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4355
    btrfs_do_encoded_write+0x92e/0x1040 fs/btrfs/inode.c:9746
    btrfs_encoded_write fs/btrfs/file.c:1482 [inline]
    btrfs_do_write_iter+0x280/0x610 fs/btrfs/file.c:1507
    btrfs_ioctl_encoded_write+0x3d6/0x490 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4738
    btrfs_ioctl+0x6f9/0xc90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:-1
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xbe/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Unreferenced object 0xffff888018050a00 (size 64):
  comm "syz.0.17", pid 10297, jiffies 4294953601
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ff 0f 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
    90 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff 90 0a 05 18 80 88 ff ff  ................
  backtrace (crc cb5c9580):
    kmemleak_alloc_recursive include/linux/kmemleak.h:42 [inline]
    slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slub.c:4152 [inline]
    slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:4197 [inline]
    __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x168/0x2c0 mm/slub.c:4358
    kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:878 [inline]
    kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1014 [inline]
    ulist_prealloc+0x9c/0x110 fs/btrfs/ulist.c:114
    extent_changeset_prealloc fs/btrfs/extent_io.h:217 [inline]
    __set_extent_bit+0x16b/0x1a70 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1086
    set_record_extent_bits+0x50/0x90 fs/btrfs/extent-io-tree.c:1821
    qgroup_reserve_data+0x274/0x7d0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4312
    btrfs_qgroup_reserve_data+0x2e/0xb0 fs/btrfs/qgroup.c:4355
    btrfs_do_encoded_write+0x92e/0x1040 fs/btrfs/inode.c:9746
    btrfs_encoded_write fs/btrfs/file.c:1482 [inline]
    btrfs_do_write_iter+0x280/0x610 fs/btrfs/file.c:1507
    btrfs_ioctl_encoded_write+0x3d6/0x490 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:4738
    btrfs_ioctl+0x6f9/0xc90 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c:-1
    vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
    __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
    __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
    do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:47 [inline]
    do_syscall_64+0xbe/0x1a0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:78
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Fix this by freeing an extent changeset before returning from
'btrfs_do_encoded_write()'.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Antipov <[email protected]>
---
To whom it may be interesting, C reproducer is available at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KxCiyW9Ewsh9ySEyxaz1FWN9s9FdJLIY/view?usp=sharing
---
 fs/btrfs/inode.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index b446c3014b24..1ad41087b94c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -9954,6 +9954,7 @@ ssize_t btrfs_do_encoded_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from,
 	if (cb)
 		cleanup_compressed_bio(cb);
 out:
+	extent_changeset_free(data_reserved);
 	if (ret >= 0)
 		iocb->ki_pos += encoded->len;
 	return ret;
-- 
2.55.0