From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Currently the check on the mode flags that returns -EPERM is leaking full_path on the error exit return. Fix this by kfree'ing it before the return. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1468029 ("Resource Leak") Fixes: 49162bfde140 ("cifs: do not allow creating sockets except with SMB1 posix exensions") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/dir.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c index f0a759dd6817..207883b39362 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/dir.c +++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c @@ -684,8 +684,10 @@ int cifs_mknod(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, umode_t mode, goto mknod_out; } - if (!S_ISCHR(mode) && !S_ISBLK(mode)) + if (!S_ISCHR(mode) && !S_ISBLK(mode)) { + kfree(full_path); return -EPERM; + } if (!(cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_UNX_EMUL)) goto mknod_out; -- 2.17.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html