ovl: Fix potential memory leak in ovl_lookup() If memory for uperredirect was allocated with kstrdup() in upperdir != NULL and d.redirect != NULL path, it may be lost when upperredirect is reassigned later. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Goriainov <goriainov@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c index 69dc577974f8..226c69812379 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -1085,6 +1085,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, .mnt = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs), }; + kfree(upperredirect); upperredirect = ovl_get_redirect_xattr(ofs, &upperpath, 0); if (IS_ERR(upperredirect)) { err = PTR_ERR(upperredirect); -- 2.34.1