From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-18.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_CR_TRAILER,INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_GIT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDE08C433B4 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A193561263 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:55:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S237546AbhDLIz6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2021 04:55:58 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:40488 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S238463AbhDLItz (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Apr 2021 04:49:55 -0400 Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 474196124C; Mon, 12 Apr 2021 08:49:03 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linuxfoundation.org; s=korg; t=1618217343; bh=v7hwrZQrgSgJF+sX3GEqamI4pj0BSEKYrBZSSqXwnCw=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=zLWJTCsiWP78qipqXT366ZKuBGCvr7zYr03vaqEPFv03U76Y6JRFeiwNLXDoZ7/sI gthYAXcDoYkK4x/TdmiYcYdBxLn89FL6Lk1AgGA0zmwL8SG6hi6cD1CQVLJINZC9/W jtvOKsVfShpxcrieXDy6ZC3qbEfJHor9cWBDoXLE= From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 5.4 056/111] hostfs: fix memory handling in follow_link() Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:40:34 +0200 Message-Id: <20210412084006.133788036@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1 In-Reply-To: <20210412084004.200986670@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20210412084004.200986670@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.66 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Al Viro [ Upstream commit 7f6c411c9b50cfab41cc798e003eff27608c7016 ] 1) argument should not be freed in any case - the caller already has it as ->s_fs_info (and uses it a lot afterwards) 2) allocate readlink buffer with kmalloc() - the caller has no way to tell if it's got that (on absolute symlink) or a result of kasprintf(). Sure, for SLAB and SLUB kfree() works on results of kmem_cache_alloc(), but that's not documented anywhere, might change in the future *and* is already not true for SLOB. Fixes: 52b209f7b848 ("get rid of hostfs_read_inode()") Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin --- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c index 4f5d857f6ecb..58a972667bf8 100644 --- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c +++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static char *follow_link(char *link) char *name, *resolved, *end; int n; - name = __getname(); + name = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL); if (!name) { n = -ENOMEM; goto out_free; @@ -171,12 +171,11 @@ static char *follow_link(char *link) goto out_free; } - __putname(name); - kfree(link); + kfree(name); return resolved; out_free: - __putname(name); + kfree(name); return ERR_PTR(n); } -- 2.30.2