Re: [PATCH v2] hfsplus: fix s_fs_info leak on mount setup failure

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 05:52:57PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 05:40:47PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 04, 2026 at 05:30:29PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > 
> > > While we are at it, this
> > >         kfree(sbi->s_vhdr_buf);
> > > 	kfree(sbi->s_backup_vhdr_buf);
> > > might as well go into ->kill_sb().  That would result in the (untested)
> > > delta below and IMO it's easier to follow that way...
> > 
> > AFAICS once you've got ->s_root set, you can just return an error and
> > be done with that - regular cleanup should take care of those parts
> > (note that iput(NULL) is explicitly a no-op and the same goes for
> > cancel_delayed_work_sync() on something that has never been through
> > queue_delayed_work()).
> 
> Scratch the last one - you'd get nls leak that way, thanks to the
> trickery in there...  Depending on how much do you dislike cleanup.h
> stuff, there might be a way to deal with that, though...

See viro/vfs.git #untested.hfsplus (I've applied leak fix to your
#for-next, commits in question are done on top of that).

It builds, but I've done no other testing on it.  And nls.h bit
needs to be discussed on fsdevel, obviously.