From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56570 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754566AbbKFGiz (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Nov 2015 01:38:55 -0500 Subject: Patch "ovl: free stack of paths in ovl_fill_super" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree To: khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, miklos@szeredi.hu Cc: , From: Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2015 22:38:53 -0800 Message-ID: <1446791933253@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: free stack of paths in ovl_fill_super to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-free-stack-of-paths-in-ovl_fill_super.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let know about it. >>From 0f95502ad84874b3c05fc7cdd9d4d9d5cddf7859 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Konstantin Khlebnikov Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:57:18 +0300 Subject: ovl: free stack of paths in ovl_fill_super From: Konstantin Khlebnikov commit 0f95502ad84874b3c05fc7cdd9d4d9d5cddf7859 upstream. This fixes small memory leak after mount. Kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff88003683fe00 (size 16): comm "mount", pid 2029, jiffies 4294909563 (age 33.380s) hex dump (first 16 bytes): 20 27 1f bb 00 88 ff ff 40 4b 0f 36 02 88 ff ff '......@K.6.... backtrace: [] create_object+0x124/0x2c0 [] kmemleak_alloc+0x7b/0xc0 [] __kmalloc+0x106/0x340 [] ovl_fill_super+0x389/0x9a0 [overlay] [] mount_nodev+0x54/0xa0 [] ovl_mount+0x18/0x20 [overlay] [] mount_fs+0x43/0x170 [] vfs_kern_mount+0x74/0x170 [] do_mount+0x22d/0xdf0 [] SyS_mount+0x7b/0xc0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76 [] 0xffffffffffffffff Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Fixes: a78d9f0d5d5c ("ovl: support multiple lower layers") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -981,6 +981,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_b oe->lowerstack[i].dentry = stack[i].dentry; oe->lowerstack[i].mnt = ufs->lower_mnt[i]; } + kfree(stack); root_dentry->d_fsdata = oe; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru are queue-4.1/ovl-free-stack-of-paths-in-ovl_fill_super.patch queue-4.1/ovl-free-lower_mnt-array-in-ovl_put_super.patch