Patch "ovl: fix creds leak in copy up error path" has been added to the 4.11-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ovl: fix creds leak in copy up error path

to the 4.11-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-fix-creds-leak-in-copy-up-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 8137ae26d25303e7b5cfb418fd28b976461e5b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 08:45:46 +0300
Subject: ovl: fix creds leak in copy up error path

From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>

commit 8137ae26d25303e7b5cfb418fd28b976461e5b6e upstream.

Fixes: 42f269b92540 ("ovl: rearrange code in ovl_copy_up_locked()")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c |   11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -269,12 +269,13 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct den
 		temp = ovl_do_tmpfile(upperdir, stat->mode);
 	else
 		temp = ovl_lookup_temp(workdir, dentry);
-	err = PTR_ERR(temp);
-	if (IS_ERR(temp))
-		goto out1;
-
 	err = 0;
-	if (!tmpfile)
+	if (IS_ERR(temp)) {
+		err = PTR_ERR(temp);
+		temp = NULL;
+	}
+
+	if (!err && !tmpfile)
 		err = ovl_create_real(wdir, temp, &cattr, NULL, true);
 
 	if (new_creds) {


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amir73il@gmail.com are

queue-4.11/ovl-fix-creds-leak-in-copy-up-error-path.patch