This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled nfs: Fix potential posix_acl refcnt leak in nfs3_set_acl to the 5.6-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: nfs-fix-potential-posix_acl-refcnt-leak-in-nfs3_set_acl.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 7648f939cb919b9d15c21fff8cd9eba908d595dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:51:47 +0200 Subject: nfs: Fix potential posix_acl refcnt leak in nfs3_set_acl From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 7648f939cb919b9d15c21fff8cd9eba908d595dc upstream. nfs3_set_acl keeps track of the acl it allocated locally to determine if an acl needs to be released at the end. This results in a memory leak when the function allocates an acl as well as a default acl. Fix by releasing acls that differ from the acl originally passed into nfs3_set_acl. Fixes: b7fa0554cf1b ("[PATCH] NFS: Add support for NFSv3 ACLs") Reported-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c | 22 +++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c @@ -253,37 +253,45 @@ int nfs3_proc_setacls(struct inode *inod int nfs3_set_acl(struct inode *inode, struct posix_acl *acl, int type) { - struct posix_acl *alloc = NULL, *dfacl = NULL; + struct posix_acl *orig = acl, *dfacl = NULL, *alloc; int status; if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) { switch(type) { case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS: - alloc = dfacl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT); + alloc = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT); if (IS_ERR(alloc)) goto fail; + dfacl = alloc; break; case ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT: - dfacl = acl; - alloc = acl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS); + alloc = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS); if (IS_ERR(alloc)) goto fail; + dfacl = acl; + acl = alloc; break; } } if (acl == NULL) { - alloc = acl = posix_acl_from_mode(inode->i_mode, GFP_KERNEL); + alloc = posix_acl_from_mode(inode->i_mode, GFP_KERNEL); if (IS_ERR(alloc)) goto fail; + acl = alloc; } status = __nfs3_proc_setacls(inode, acl, dfacl); - posix_acl_release(alloc); +out: + if (acl != orig) + posix_acl_release(acl); + if (dfacl != orig) + posix_acl_release(dfacl); return status; fail: - return PTR_ERR(alloc); + status = PTR_ERR(alloc); + goto out; } const struct xattr_handler *nfs3_xattr_handlers[] = { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from agruenba@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.6/nfs-fix-potential-posix_acl-refcnt-leak-in-nfs3_set_acl.patch