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Subject[PATCH] btrfs: Mem leak in btrfs_get_acl()

It seems to me that we leak the memory allocated to 'value' in
btrfs_get_acl() if the call to posix_acl_from_xattr() fails.
Here's a patch that attempts to correct that problem.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
acl.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

compile tested only.

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/acl.c b/fs/btrfs/acl.c
index 2222d16..6d1410e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/acl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/acl.c
@@ -60,8 +60,10 @@ static struct posix_acl *btrfs_get_acl(struct inode *inode, int type)
size = __btrfs_getxattr(inode, name, value, size);
if (size > 0) {
acl = posix_acl_from_xattr(value, size);
- if (IS_ERR(acl))
+ if (IS_ERR(acl)) {
+ kfree(value);
return acl;
+ }
set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl);
}
kfree(value);

--
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> http://www.chaosbits.net/
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