This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Btrfs: fix fspath error deallocation
to the 4.5-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:
btrfs-fix-fspath-error-deallocation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 72928f2476d08c79f132b4f44a17c9a011dd98e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Vincent=20Stehl=C3=A9?= <vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 14:56:20 +0200
Subject: Btrfs: fix fspath error deallocation
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From: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 72928f2476d08c79f132b4f44a17c9a011dd98e3 upstream.
Make sure to deallocate fspath with vfree() in case of error in
init_ipath().
fspath is allocated with vmalloc() in init_data_container() since
commit 425d17a290c0 ("Btrfs: use larger limit for translation of logical to
inode").
Signed-off-by: Vincent Stehlé <vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/btrfs/backref.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/btrfs/backref.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/backref.c
@@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@ struct inode_fs_paths *init_ipath(s32 to
ifp = kmalloc(sizeof(*ifp), GFP_NOFS);
if (!ifp) {
- kfree(fspath);
+ vfree(fspath);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vincent.stehle@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.5/btrfs-fix-fspath-error-deallocation.patch
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