This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name
to the 4.14-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:
ubifs-free-memory-for-tmpfile-name.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
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From: =?UTF-8?q?M=C3=A5rten=20Lindahl?= <marten.lindahl@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 11:32:14 +0200
Subject: ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name
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From: Mårten Lindahl <marten.lindahl@xxxxxxxx>
commit 1fb815b38bb31d6af9bd0540b8652a0d6fe6cfd3 upstream.
When opening a ubifs tmpfile on an encrypted directory, function
fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for the name that is to be
stored in the directory entry, but after the name has been copied to the
directory entry inode, the memory is not freed.
When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The
report below is triggered by a simple program 'tmpfile' just opening a
tmpfile:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810178f380 (size 32):
comm "tmpfile", pid 509, jiffies 4294934744 (age 1524.742s)
backtrace:
__kmem_cache_alloc_node
__kmalloc
fscrypt_setup_filename
ubifs_tmpfile
vfs_tmpfile
path_openat
Free this memory after it has been copied to the inode.
Signed-off-by: Mårten Lindahl <marten.lindahl@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ubifs/dir.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -462,6 +462,7 @@ static int do_tmpfile(struct inode *dir,
mutex_unlock(&dir_ui->ui_mutex);
ubifs_release_budget(c, &req);
+ fscrypt_free_filename(&nm);
return 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marten.lindahl@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.14/ubifs-free-memory-for-tmpfile-name.patch
