In ext4_xattr_set_acl(), if ext4_journal_start() returns an error,
posix_acl_release() will not be called for 'acl' which may result
in a memory leak.
This patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/acl.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index a5c29bb..8535c45 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -410,8 +410,10 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
retry:
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
- if (IS_ERR(handle))
- return PTR_ERR(handle);
+ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+ error = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ goto release_and_out;
+ }
error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))
--
1.7.10.4
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