From: Herbert Poetzl looking at ext3_xattr_block_set() [fs/ext3/xattr.c] ... I see that error = -EDQUOT; if (DQUOT_ALLOC_BLOCK(inode, 1)) goto cleanup; allocates a quota block, but right after that several error echecks happen ... if (error) goto cleanup; and I don't see any DQUOT_FREE_BLOCK() in the errorpath Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- 25-akpm/fs/ext3/xattr.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ext3/xattr.c~ext3-quota-leak-fix fs/ext3/xattr.c --- 25/fs/ext3/xattr.c~ext3-quota-leak-fix 2005-01-23 01:00:01.004431064 -0800 +++ 25-akpm/fs/ext3/xattr.c 2005-01-23 01:00:01.009430304 -0800 @@ -773,7 +773,7 @@ inserted: error = ext3_journal_get_write_access(handle, new_bh); if (error) - goto cleanup; + goto cleanup_dquot; lock_buffer(new_bh); BHDR(new_bh)->h_refcount = cpu_to_le32(1 + le32_to_cpu(BHDR(new_bh)->h_refcount)); @@ -783,7 +783,7 @@ inserted: error = ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, new_bh); if (error) - goto cleanup; + goto cleanup_dquot; } mb_cache_entry_release(ce); ce = NULL; @@ -844,6 +844,10 @@ cleanup: return error; +cleanup_dquot: + DQUOT_FREE_BLOCK(inode, 1); + goto cleanup; + bad_block: ext3_error(inode->i_sb, __FUNCTION__, "inode %ld: bad block %d", inode->i_ino, _