[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, &copy, &inc);
- if (r)
+ if (r) {
+ dm_sm_dec_block(pmd->metadata_sm, THIN_SUPERBLOCK_LOCATION);
return r;
+ }

BUG_ON(!inc);

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