From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Miklos Szeredi , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 120/305] cuse: fix memory leak Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2016 15:58:54 -0800 Message-Id: <1452902519-2754-121-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1452902519-2754-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1452902519-2754-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Miklos Szeredi commit 2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c upstream. The problem is that fuse_dev_alloc() acquires an extra reference to cc.fc, and the original ref count is never dropped. Reported-by: Colin Ian King Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Fixes: cc080e9e9be1 ("fuse: introduce per-instance fuse_dev structure") Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- fs/fuse/cuse.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/fuse/cuse.c b/fs/fuse/cuse.c index eae2c11..8e3ee19 100644 --- a/fs/fuse/cuse.c +++ b/fs/fuse/cuse.c @@ -549,6 +549,8 @@ static int cuse_channel_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) unregister_chrdev_region(cc->cdev->dev, 1); cdev_del(cc->cdev); } + /* Base reference is now owned by "fud" */ + fuse_conn_put(&cc->fc); rc = fuse_dev_release(inode, file); /* puts the base reference */ -- 1.9.1