This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name to the 4.19-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: ubifs-free-memory-for-tmpfile-name.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 1fb815b38bb31d6af9bd0540b8652a0d6fe6cfd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 @@ -445,6 +445,7 @@ 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-4.19/ubifs-free-memory-for-tmpfile-name.patch