[PATCH v2] ufs: free the buffer head container in ubh_bforget
Ali Ahmet Memis <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 11:41:30 +0000
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel,org.kernel.vger.stable |
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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(). Drop the NULL test in the loop as well, which Luis already noted is redundant because bforget() ignores a NULL buffer head; ubh_brelse() has no such test either, so the two now match. Luis Henriques posted this fix in 2018. It never got a single reply and was never applied, while fs/ufs had no active maintainer, and the leak is still present. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Ali Ahmet Memis <[email protected]> --- v2: drop the NULL test in the loop, as Luis pointed out. That makes this the same change as his 2018 patch; if you would rather it went in under his authorship I am happy to resend it that way, his call. Whitespace on the touched lines modernised to keep checkpatch quiet. v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/ fs/ufs/util.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ufs/util.c b/fs/ufs/util.c index dff6f74618de..603d80b93066 100644 --- a/fs/ufs/util.c +++ b/fs/ufs/util.c @@ -117,8 +117,9 @@ 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++) + bforget(ubh->bh[i]); + kfree(ubh); } int ubh_buffer_dirty (struct ufs_buffer_head * ubh) base-commit: 2d2338c93da79b3bfe4b6099a931d9468d539952 -- 2.55.0