This reverts commit 9163e0184bd7d5f779934d34581843f699ad2ffd.
At the point when ubifs_fill_super() runs, we have already a reference
to the super block. So upon deactivate_locked_super() c will get
free()'ed via ->kill_sb().
Cc: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 9163e0184bd7 ("ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs_info() error path")
Reported-by: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1180609139359277056
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
---
fs/ubifs/super.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 7d4547e5202d..5e1e8ec0589e 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -2267,10 +2267,8 @@ static struct dentry *ubifs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
}
} else {
err = ubifs_fill_super(sb, data, flags & SB_SILENT ? 1 : 0);
- if (err) {
- kfree(c);
+ if (err)
goto out_deact;
- }
/* We do not support atime */
sb->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE;
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UBIFS_ATIME_SUPPORT))
--
2.16.4
