In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix the inode leak in btrfs_iget()

[BUG]
There is a bug report that a syzbot reproducer can lead to the following
busy inode at unmount time:

  BTRFS info (device loop1): last unmount of filesystem 1680000e-3c1e-4c46-84b6-56bd3909af50
  VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop1 (btrfs)
  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at fs/super.c:650!
  Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 48168 Comm: syz-executor Not tainted 6.15.0-rc2-00471-g119009db2674 #2 PREEMPT(full)
  Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
  RIP: 0010:generic_shutdown_super+0x2e9/0x390 fs/super.c:650
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   kill_anon_super+0x3a/0x60 fs/super.c:1237
   btrfs_kill_super+0x3b/0x50 fs/btrfs/super.c:2099
   deactivate_locked_super+0xbe/0x1a0 fs/super.c:473
   deactivate_super fs/super.c:506 [inline]
   deactivate_super+0xe2/0x100 fs/super.c:502
   cleanup_mnt+0x21f/0x440 fs/namespace.c:1435
   task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
   resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
   exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:114 [inline]
   exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/entry-common.h:329 [inline]
   __syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work kernel/entry/common.c:207 [inline]
   syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x269/0x290 kernel/entry/common.c:218
   do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x250 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
   </TASK>

[CAUSE]
When btrfs_alloc_path() failed, btrfs_iget() directly returned without
releasing the inode already allocated by btrfs_iget_locked().

This results the above busy inode and trigger the kernel BUG.

[FIX]
Fix it by calling iget_failed() if btrfs_alloc_path() failed.

If we hit error inside btrfs_read_locked_inode(), it will properly call
iget_failed(), so nothing to worry about.

Although the iget_failed() cleanup inside btrfs_read_locked_inode() is a
break of the normal error handling scheme, let's fix the obvious bug
and backport first, then rework the error handling later.