[PATCH 6.1] btrfs: fix root leak if its reloc root is unexpected in merge_reloc_roots()

From: Dmitriy Okunev

Date: Mon Aug 17 2026 - 06:48:51 EST


From: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>

commit ce6050bafb4e33377dc17fcc357736bfc351180c upstream.

If we have an unexpected reloc_root for our root, we jump to the out label
but never drop the reference we obtained for root, resulting in a leak.
Add a missing btrfs_put_root() call.

Fixes: 24213fa46c70 ("btrfs: do proper error handling in merge_reloc_roots")
Reviewed-by: Qu Wenruo <wqu@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Okunev <dokunevdmitriy@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/relocation.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
index 43e8c331168e..d2a1323e8b10 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
@@ -1956,6 +1956,7 @@ void merge_reloc_roots(struct reloc_control *rc)
* corruption, e.g. bad reloc tree key offset.
*/
ret = -EINVAL;
+ btrfs_put_root(root);
goto out;
}
ret = merge_reloc_root(rc, root);
--
2.53.0