btrfs: fix double free in create_space_info_sub_group() error path

[ Upstream commit a7449edf96 ]

When kobject_init_and_add() fails, the call chain is:

create_space_info_sub_group()
-> btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type()
-> kobject_init_and_add()
-> failure
-> kobject_put(&sub_group->kobj)
-> space_info_release()
-> kfree(sub_group)

Then control returns to create_space_info_sub_group(), where:

btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() returns error
-> kfree(sub_group)

Thus, sub_group is freed twice.

Keep parent->sub_group[index] = NULL for the failure path, but after
btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type() has called kobject_put(), let the
kobject release callback handle the cleanup.

Fixes: f92ee31e03 ("btrfs: introduce btrfs_space_info sub-group")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.18+
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Guangshuo Li <lgs201920130244@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Guangshuo Li
2026-05-17 17:15:37 +02:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent a4b5c5d2f8
commit dfd05a16b5
+1 -3
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@@ -276,10 +276,8 @@ static int create_space_info_sub_group(struct btrfs_space_info *parent, u64 flag
sub_group->subgroup_id = id;
ret = btrfs_sysfs_add_space_info_type(sub_group);
if (ret) {
kfree(sub_group);
if (ret)
parent->sub_group[index] = NULL;
}
return ret;
}