The use of file_free_rcu() in init_file() to free the struct that was allocated by the caller was hacky and we got what we desreved. Let init_file() and its callers take care of cleaning up each after their own allocated resources on error. Reported-by: syzbot+ada42aab05cf51b00e98@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 62d53c4a1dfe ("fs: use backing_file container for internal files with "fake" f_path") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/file_table.c | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index e06c68e2d757..fc7d677ff5ad 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ static int init_file(struct file *f, int flags, const struct cred *cred) f->f_cred = get_cred(cred); error = security_file_alloc(f); if (unlikely(error)) { - file_free_rcu(&f->f_rcuhead); + put_cred(f->f_cred); return error; } @@ -208,8 +208,10 @@ struct file *alloc_empty_file(int flags, const struct cred *cred) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); error = init_file(f, flags, cred); - if (unlikely(error)) + if (unlikely(error)) { + kmem_cache_free(filp_cachep, f); return ERR_PTR(error); + } percpu_counter_inc(&nr_files); @@ -240,8 +242,10 @@ struct file *alloc_empty_file_noaccount(int flags, const struct cred *cred) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); error = init_file(f, flags, cred); - if (unlikely(error)) + if (unlikely(error)) { + kmem_cache_free(filp_cachep, f); return ERR_PTR(error); + } f->f_mode |= FMODE_NOACCOUNT; @@ -265,8 +269,10 @@ struct file *alloc_empty_backing_file(int flags, const struct cred *cred) return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); error = init_file(&ff->file, flags, cred); - if (unlikely(error)) + if (unlikely(error)) { + kfree(ff); return ERR_PTR(error); + } ff->file.f_mode |= FMODE_BACKING | FMODE_NOACCOUNT; return &ff->file; -- 2.34.1