[PATCH 2/4] erofs: fix incorrect early exits in volume label handling

Hongbo Li lihongbo22 at huawei.com
Tue Dec 30 00:08:27 AEDT 2025



On 2025/12/29 17:29, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Crafted EROFS images containing valid volume labels can trigger
> incorrect early returns, leading to folio reference leaks.
> 
> However, this does not cause system crashes or other severe issues.
> 
> Fixes: 1cf12c717741 ("erofs: Add support for FS_IOC_GETFSLABEL")
> Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com>

Reviewed-by: Hongbo Li <lihongbo22 at huawei.com>

Thanks,
Hongbo

> ---
>   fs/erofs/super.c | 6 ++++--
>   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/erofs/super.c b/fs/erofs/super.c
> index 2e4d0ea2ffa1..0d4f736ae1f1 100644
> --- a/fs/erofs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/erofs/super.c
> @@ -347,8 +347,10 @@ static int erofs_read_superblock(struct super_block *sb)
>   	if (dsb->volume_name[0]) {
>   		sbi->volume_name = kstrndup(dsb->volume_name,
>   					    sizeof(dsb->volume_name), GFP_KERNEL);
> -		if (!sbi->volume_name)
> -			return -ENOMEM;
> +		if (!sbi->volume_name) {
> +			ret = -ENOMEM;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
>   	}
>   
>   	/* parse on-disk compression configurations */


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