[PATCH] nilfs2: fix backing_dev_info reference leak

Shuangpeng Bai <[email protected]> Thu, 7 May 2026 11:50:21 -0400
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-nilfs,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
setup_bdev_super() already initializes sb->s_bdev and takes a
reference on the block device backing_dev_info when assigning sb->s_bdi.

nilfs_fill_super() takes another reference to the same
backing_dev_info and stores it in sb->s_bdi again. The extra
reference is not paired with a matching bdi_put(), since
generic_shutdown_super() releases sb->s_bdi only once.

Drop the redundant bdi_get() in nilfs_fill_super(). The single
reference taken by setup_bdev_super() is enough and is released
during superblock shutdown.

Fixes: c1e012ea9e83 ("nilfs2: use setup_bdev_super to de-duplicate the mount code")
Signed-off-by: Shuangpeng Bai <[email protected]>
---
 fs/nilfs2/super.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/super.c b/fs/nilfs2/super.c
index 7aa5ef8606cd..893a504cb80c 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/super.c
@@ -1070,8 +1070,6 @@ nilfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
 	sb->s_time_gran = 1;
 	sb->s_max_links = NILFS_LINK_MAX;
 
-	sb->s_bdi = bdi_get(sb->s_bdev->bd_disk->bdi);
-
 	err = load_nilfs(nilfs, sb);
 	if (err)
 		goto failed_nilfs;
-- 
2.34.1