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From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz>
To: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
Cc: clm@fb.com, jbacik@fb.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] btrfs: fix possible leak in btrfs_ioctl_balance()
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:46:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151021094625.GB13624@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1445381406-13475-1-git-send-email-cengelma@gmx.at>

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:50:06AM +0200, Christian Engelmayer wrote:
> Commit 8eb934591f8b ("btrfs: check unsupported filters in balance
> arguments") adds a jump to exit label out_bargs in case the argument
> check fails. At this point in addition to the bargs memory, the
> memory for struct btrfs_balance_control has already been allocated.
> Ownership of bctl is passed to btrfs_balance() in the good case,
> thus the memory is not freed due to the introduced jump. Make sure
> that the memory gets freed in any case as necessary. Detected by
> Coverity CID 1328378.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <cengelma@gmx.at>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

Thanks for fixig it.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-21  9:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-20 22:50 [PATCH] btrfs: fix possible leak in btrfs_ioctl_balance() Christian Engelmayer
2015-10-21  9:46 ` David Sterba [this message]

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