This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ext4: fix memory leak in xattr
to the 3.0-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-in-xattr.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6e4ea8e33b2057b85d75175dd89b93f5e26de3bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 20:05:35 -0400
Subject: ext4: fix memory leak in xattr
From: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6e4ea8e33b2057b85d75175dd89b93f5e26de3bc upstream.
If we take the 2nd retry path in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea, we
potentionally return from the function without having freed these
allocations. If we don't do the return, we over-write the previous
allocation pointers, so we leak either way.
Spotted with Coverity.
[ Fixed by tytso to set is and bs to NULL after freeing these
pointers, in case in the retry loop we later end up triggering an
error causing a jump to cleanup, at which point we could have a double
free bug. -- Ted ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -1271,6 +1271,8 @@ retry:
s_min_extra_isize) {
tried_min_extra_isize++;
new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
+ kfree(is); is = NULL;
+ kfree(bs); bs = NULL;
goto retry;
}
error = -1;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from davej@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.0/ext4-fix-memory-leak-in-xattr.patch
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