This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cifs: fix wrong release in sess_alloc_buffer() failed 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:
cifs-fix-wrong-release-in-sess_alloc_buffer-failed-p.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.
commit 99c623e9bc043f3ff44d7f76e961c70d9a00d64b
Author: Ding Hui <dinghui@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Aug 17 22:55:10 2021 +0800
cifs: fix wrong release in sess_alloc_buffer() failed path
[ Upstream commit d72c74197b70bc3c95152f351a568007bffa3e11 ]
smb_buf is allocated by small_smb_init_no_tc(), and buf type is
CIFS_SMALL_BUFFER, so we should use cifs_small_buf_release() to
release it in failed path.
Signed-off-by: Ding Hui <dinghui@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/sess.c b/fs/cifs/sess.c
index aa23c00367ec..0113dba28eb0 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/sess.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/sess.c
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ sess_alloc_buffer(struct sess_data *sess_data, int wct)
return 0;
out_free_smb_buf:
- kfree(smb_buf);
+ cifs_small_buf_release(smb_buf);
sess_data->iov[0].iov_base = NULL;
sess_data->iov[0].iov_len = 0;
sess_data->buf0_type = CIFS_NO_BUFFER;
