[PATCH 05/11] netfs: Fix ref leak on inserted extra subreq in write retry

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Mon Jun 23 05:48:25 PDT 2025


The write-retry algorithm will insert extra subrequests into the list if it
can't get sufficient capacity to split the range that needs to be retried
into the sequence of subrequests it currently has (for instance, if the
cifs credit pool has fewer credits available than it did when the range was
originally divided).

However, the allocator furnishes each new subreq with 2 refs and then
another is added for resubmission, causing one to be leaked.

Fix this by replacing the ref-getting line with a neutral trace line.

Fixes: 288ace2f57c9 ("netfs: New writeback implementation")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara <pc at manguebit.org>
cc: netfs at lists.linux.dev
cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
---
 fs/netfs/write_retry.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/netfs/write_retry.c b/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
index 9d1d8a8bab72..7158657061e9 100644
--- a/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
+++ b/fs/netfs/write_retry.c
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ static void netfs_retry_write_stream(struct netfs_io_request *wreq,
 			trace_netfs_sreq_ref(wreq->debug_id, subreq->debug_index,
 					     refcount_read(&subreq->ref),
 					     netfs_sreq_trace_new);
-			netfs_get_subrequest(subreq, netfs_sreq_trace_get_resubmit);
+			trace_netfs_sreq(subreq, netfs_sreq_trace_split);
 
 			list_add(&subreq->rreq_link, &to->rreq_link);
 			to = list_next_entry(to, rreq_link);




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