This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
afs: Fix page leak in afs_write_begin()
to the 3.18-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:
afs-fix-page-leak-in-afs_write_begin.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Dec 18 15:03:25 CET 2017
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:27:48 +0000
Subject: afs: Fix page leak in afs_write_begin()
From: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 6d06b0d25209c80e99c1e89700f1e09694a3766b ]
afs_write_begin() leaks a ref and a lock on a page if afs_fill_page()
fails. Fix the leak by unlocking and releasing the page in the error path.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/afs/write.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/afs/write.c
+++ b/fs/afs/write.c
@@ -149,12 +149,12 @@ int afs_write_begin(struct file *file, s
kfree(candidate);
return -ENOMEM;
}
- *pagep = page;
- /* page won't leak in error case: it eventually gets cleaned off LRU */
if (!PageUptodate(page) && len != PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) {
ret = afs_fill_page(vnode, key, index << PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT, page);
if (ret < 0) {
+ unlock_page(page);
+ put_page(page);
kfree(candidate);
_leave(" = %d [prep]", ret);
return ret;
@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ int afs_write_begin(struct file *file, s
SetPageUptodate(page);
}
+ /* page won't leak in error case: it eventually gets cleaned off LRU */
+ *pagep = page;
+
try_again:
spin_lock(&vnode->writeback_lock);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/afs-flush-outstanding-writes-when-an-fd-is-closed.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-the-maths-in-afs_fs_store_data.patch
queue-3.18/keys-don-t-permit-request_key-to-construct-a-new-keyring.patch
queue-3.18/afs-populate-group-id-from-vnode-status.patch
queue-3.18/afs-adjust-mode-bits-processing.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-page-leak-in-afs_write_begin.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-missing-put_page.patch
queue-3.18/afs-populate-and-use-client-modification-time.patch
queue-3.18/afs-fix-afs_kill_pages.patch
queue-3.18/don-t-leak-a-key-reference-if-request_key-tries-to-use-a-revoked-keyring.patch