Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [ 05/11] ext4: fix memory leak in xattr | Date | Fri, 18 Oct 2013 12:53:34 -0700 |
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3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
commit 6e4ea8e33b2057b85d75175dd89b93f5e26de3bc upstream.
If we take the 2nd retry path in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea, we potentionally return from the function without having freed these allocations. If we don't do the return, we over-write the previous allocation pointers, so we leak either way.
Spotted with Coverity.
[ Fixed by tytso to set is and bs to NULL after freeing these pointers, in case in the retry loop we later end up triggering an error causing a jump to cleanup, at which point we could have a double free bug. -- Ted ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1268,6 +1268,8 @@ retry: s_min_extra_isize) { tried_min_extra_isize++; new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize; + kfree(is); is = NULL; + kfree(bs); bs = NULL; goto retry; } error = -1;
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