[PATCH] dm thin metadata: fix superblock refcount leak on snapshot shadow failure
From: Genjian
Date: Sat Jul 11 2026 - 06:06:43 EST
From: Genjian Zhang <zhanggenjian@xxxxxxxxxx>
__reserve_metadata_snap() increments THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION in the
metadata space map before shadowing it. When dm_tm_shadow_block()
fails, a reference is leaked in the metadata space map.
Fix by adding the missing dm_sm_dec_block().
Fixes: cc8394d86f04 ("dm thin: provide userspace access to pool metadata")
Signed-off-by: Genjian Zhang <zhanggenjian@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
index b6a2d2081a24..b194fb57d158 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -1353,8 +1353,10 @@ static int __reserve_metadata_snap(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd)
dm_sm_inc_block(pmd->metadata_sm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION);
r = dm_tm_shadow_block(pmd->tm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION,
&sb_validator, ©, &inc);
- if (r)
+ if (r) {
+ dm_sm_dec_block(pmd->metadata_sm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION);
return r;
+ }
BUG_ON(!inc);
--
2.43.0