This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ovl: fix creds leak in copy up error path
to the 4.11-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:
ovl-fix-creds-leak-in-copy-up-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8137ae26d25303e7b5cfb418fd28b976461e5b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 08:45:46 +0300
Subject: ovl: fix creds leak in copy up error path
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 8137ae26d25303e7b5cfb418fd28b976461e5b6e upstream.
Fixes: 42f269b92540 ("ovl: rearrange code in ovl_copy_up_locked()")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -269,12 +269,13 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct den
temp = ovl_do_tmpfile(upperdir, stat->mode);
else
temp = ovl_lookup_temp(workdir, dentry);
- err = PTR_ERR(temp);
- if (IS_ERR(temp))
- goto out1;
-
err = 0;
- if (!tmpfile)
+ if (IS_ERR(temp)) {
+ err = PTR_ERR(temp);
+ temp = NULL;
+ }
+
+ if (!err && !tmpfile)
err = ovl_create_real(wdir, temp, &cattr, NULL, true);
if (new_creds) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amir73il@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.11/ovl-fix-creds-leak-in-copy-up-error-path.patch