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* [PATCH] efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()
@ 2020-10-23 11:54 Vamshi K Sthambamkadi
  2020-10-26  7:15 ` Ard Biesheuvel
  2020-11-17 17:47 ` [tip: efi/urgent] " tip-bot2 for Vamshi K Sthambamkadi
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From: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi @ 2020-10-23 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: matthew.garrett, jk, ardb; +Cc: linux-efi, linux-kernel

kmemleak report:
  unreferenced object 0xffff9b8915fcb000 (size 4096):
  comm "efivarfs.sh", pid 2360, jiffies 4294920096 (age 48.264s)
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    2d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  -...............
    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
  backtrace:
    [<00000000cc4d897c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x155/0x4b0
    [<000000007d1dfa72>] efivarfs_create+0x6e/0x1a0
    [<00000000e6ee18fc>] path_openat+0xe4b/0x1120
    [<000000000ad0414f>] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100
    [<00000000ce93a198>] do_sys_openat2+0x20c/0x2d0
    [<000000002a91be6d>] do_sys_open+0x46/0x80
    [<000000000a854999>] __x64_sys_openat+0x20/0x30
    [<00000000c50d89c9>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90
    [<00000000cecd6b5f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

In efivarfs_create(), inode->i_private is setup with efivar_entry
object which is never freed.

Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com>
---
 fs/efivarfs/super.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
index 15880a6..f943fd0 100644
--- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ LIST_HEAD(efivarfs_list);
 static void efivarfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	clear_inode(inode);
+	kfree(inode->i_private);
 }
 
 static const struct super_operations efivarfs_ops = {
-- 
2.7.4


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