From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: tytso@mit.edu
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ext4: fix memory leak in xattr code.
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:29:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130920142918.GA21988@redhat.com> (raw)
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>
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;
next reply other threads:[~2013-09-20 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 14:29 Dave Jones [this message]
2013-09-20 15:29 ` ext4: fix memory leak in xattr code Eric Sandeen
2013-09-22 19:33 ` Theodore Ts'o
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