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SubjectRe: ext4: fix memory leak in xattr code.
On 9/20/13 9:29 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>

Looks right to me.

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>

Thanks!

-Eric

> diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> index c081e34..f3a6220 100644
> --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> @@ -1350,6 +1350,8 @@ retry:
> s_min_extra_isize) {
> tried_min_extra_isize++;
> new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
> + kfree(is);
> + kfree(bs);
> goto retry;
> }
> error = -1;
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