This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ext4: fix memory leak when symlink decryption fails to the 4.8-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: ext4-fix-memory-leak-when-symlink-decryption-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dcce7a46c6f28f41447272fb44348ead8f584573 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:13:13 -0400 Subject: ext4: fix memory leak when symlink decryption fails From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit dcce7a46c6f28f41447272fb44348ead8f584573 upstream. This bug was introduced in v4.8-rc1. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ext4/symlink.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ext4/symlink.c +++ b/fs/ext4/symlink.c @@ -65,13 +65,12 @@ static const char *ext4_encrypted_get_li res = fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer(inode, cstr.len, &pstr); if (res) goto errout; + paddr = pstr.name; res = fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr(inode, 0, 0, &cstr, &pstr); if (res < 0) goto errout; - paddr = pstr.name; - /* Null-terminate the name */ if (res <= pstr.len) paddr[res] = '\0'; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/ext4-fix-memory-leak-when-symlink-decryption-fails.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html