[PATCH][RFC] XFS: Fix mem leak and possible NULL deref in xfs_setattr_nonsize()

Jesper Juhl
2012-02-05T21:23:17Z

In xfs_setattr_nonsize(), xfs_trans_alloc() gets its memory from
_xfs_trans_alloc() which gets it from kmem_zone_zalloc() which may
fail and return NULL. So this:

tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SETATTR_NOT_SIZE);

may result in a NULL 'tp'.
If it does, then the call:

error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, XFS_ICHANGE_LOG_RES(mp), 0, 0, 0);

with a NULL 'tp' will explode, since xfs_trans_reserve() dereferences
its first argument unconditionally.

And if the memory allocation for 'tp' goes well (and thus
xfs_trans_reserve() does not explode) then we may leak the memory
allocated to 'tp' if xfs_trans_reserve() returns error.

I believe this patch should fix both issues, but I'm not intimate with
the XFS code at all, so there can easily be something I overlooked or
something that should be done differently than what I did.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Note:
Please review carefully before applying.
Especially since I don't currently have any XFS filesystems to test
this on, nor any clear idea of a good way to actually test this if I
had. So this patch is compile tested only on my end.

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
index ab30253..194c9d7 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c
@@ -575,9 +575,14 @@ xfs_setattr_nonsize(
}

tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_SETATTR_NOT_SIZE);
+ if (!tp)
+ goto out_dqrele;
+
error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, 0, XFS_ICHANGE_LOG_RES(mp), 0, 0, 0);
- if (error)
+ if (error) {
+ xfs_trans_cancel(tp, 0);
goto out_dqrele;
+ }

xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);

--
1.7.9

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