ext4: fix potential buffer head leak when add_dirent_to_buf() returns ENOSPC

Previously add_dirent_to_buf() did not free its passed-in buffer head
in the case of ENOSPC, since in some cases the caller still needed it.
However, this led to potential buffer head leaks since not all callers
dealt with this correctly.  Fix this by making simplifying the freeing
convention; now add_dirent_to_buf() *never* frees the passed-in buffer
head, and leaves that to the responsibility of its caller.  This makes
things cleaner and easier to prove that the code is neither leaking
buffer heads or calling brelse() one time too many.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Curt Wohlgemuth <curtw@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 6d2c1b8..fde08c91 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1292,9 +1292,6 @@ errout:
  * add_dirent_to_buf will attempt search the directory block for
  * space.  It will return -ENOSPC if no space is available, and -EIO
  * and -EEXIST if directory entry already exists.
- *
- * NOTE!  bh is NOT released in the case where ENOSPC is returned.  In
- * all other cases bh is released.
  */
 static int add_dirent_to_buf(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 			     struct inode *inode, struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *de,
@@ -1315,14 +1312,10 @@ static int add_dirent_to_buf(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 		top = bh->b_data + blocksize - reclen;
 		while ((char *) de <= top) {
 			if (!ext4_check_dir_entry("ext4_add_entry", dir, de,
-						  bh, offset)) {
-				brelse(bh);
+						  bh, offset))
 				return -EIO;
-			}
-			if (ext4_match(namelen, name, de)) {
-				brelse(bh);
+			if (ext4_match(namelen, name, de))
 				return -EEXIST;
-			}
 			nlen = EXT4_DIR_REC_LEN(de->name_len);
 			rlen = ext4_rec_len_from_disk(de->rec_len, blocksize);
 			if ((de->inode? rlen - nlen: rlen) >= reclen)
@@ -1337,7 +1330,6 @@ static int add_dirent_to_buf(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 	err = ext4_journal_get_write_access(handle, bh);
 	if (err) {
 		ext4_std_error(dir->i_sb, err);
-		brelse(bh);
 		return err;
 	}
 
@@ -1377,7 +1369,6 @@ static int add_dirent_to_buf(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 	err = ext4_handle_dirty_metadata(handle, dir, bh);
 	if (err)
 		ext4_std_error(dir->i_sb, err);
-	brelse(bh);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1471,7 +1462,9 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (!(de))
 		return retval;
 
-	return add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh);
+	retval = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh);
+	brelse(bh);
+	return retval;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1514,8 +1507,10 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 		if(!bh)
 			return retval;
 		retval = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, NULL, bh);
-		if (retval != -ENOSPC)
+		if (retval != -ENOSPC) {
+			brelse(bh);
 			return retval;
+		}
 
 		if (blocks == 1 && !dx_fallback &&
 		    EXT4_HAS_COMPAT_FEATURE(sb, EXT4_FEATURE_COMPAT_DIR_INDEX))
@@ -1528,7 +1523,9 @@ static int ext4_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 	de = (struct ext4_dir_entry_2 *) bh->b_data;
 	de->inode = 0;
 	de->rec_len = ext4_rec_len_to_disk(blocksize, blocksize);
-	return add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh);
+	retval = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh);
+	brelse(bh);
+	return retval;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -1561,10 +1558,8 @@ static int ext4_dx_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 		goto journal_error;
 
 	err = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, NULL, bh);
-	if (err != -ENOSPC) {
-		bh = NULL;
+	if (err != -ENOSPC)
 		goto cleanup;
-	}
 
 	/* Block full, should compress but for now just split */
 	dxtrace(printk(KERN_DEBUG "using %u of %u node entries\n",
@@ -1657,7 +1652,6 @@ static int ext4_dx_add_entry(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (!de)
 		goto cleanup;
 	err = add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh);
-	bh = NULL;
 	goto cleanup;
 
 journal_error: