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
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