This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix buffer leak in ext4_xattr_get_block() on error path
to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ext4-fix-buffer-leak-in-ext4_xattr_get_block-on-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ecaaf408478b6fb4d9986f9b6652f3824e374f4c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 11:01:33 -0500
Subject: ext4: fix buffer leak in ext4_xattr_get_block() on error path
From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit ecaaf408478b6fb4d9986f9b6652f3824e374f4c upstream.
Fixes: dec214d00e0d ("ext4: xattr inode deduplication")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx # 4.13
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -2282,8 +2282,10 @@ static struct buffer_head *ext4_xattr_ge
if (!bh)
return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
error = ext4_xattr_check_block(inode, bh);
- if (error)
+ if (error) {
+ brelse(bh);
return ERR_PTR(error);
+ }
return bh;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-buffer-leak-in-ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea-on-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-add-missing-brelse-add_new_gdb_meta_bg-s-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/mm-swapfile.c-use-kvzalloc-for-swap_info_struct-allocation.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-avoid-buffer-leak-in-ext4_orphan_add-after-prior-errors.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-missing-bh-check-in-ext4_xattr_inode_write.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-avoid-buffer-leak-on-shutdown-in-ext4_mark_iloc_dirty.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-release-bs.bh-before-re-using-in-ext4_xattr_block_find.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-missing-cleanup-if-ext4_alloc_flex_bg_array-fails-while-resizing.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-buffer-leak-in-__ext4_read_dirblock-on-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-possible-inode-leak-in-the-retry-loop-of-ext4_resize_fs.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-buffer-leak-in-ext4_xattr_get_block-on-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-possible-leak-of-sbi-s_group_desc_leak-in-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-add-missing-brelse-in-set_flexbg_block_bitmap-s-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-buffer-leak-in-ext4_xattr_move_to_block-on-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-avoid-potential-extra-brelse-in-setup_new_flex_group_blocks.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-add-missing-brelse-update_backups-s-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-avoid-possible-double-brelse-in-add_new_gdb-on-error-path.patch
queue-4.19/ext4-fix-possible-leak-of-s_journal_flag_rwsem-in-error-path.patch
