4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> commit 63e132528032ce937126aba591a7b37ec593a6bb upstream. The memory leak was detected by kmemleak when running xfstests overlay/051,053 Fixes: caf70cb2ba5d ("ovl: cleanup orphan index entries") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.13 Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/util.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ static void ovl_cleanup_index(struct den struct dentry *upperdentry = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); struct dentry *index = NULL; struct inode *inode; - struct qstr name; + struct qstr name = { }; int err; err = ovl_get_index_name(lowerdentry, &name); @@ -477,6 +477,7 @@ static void ovl_cleanup_index(struct den goto fail; out: + kfree(name.name); dput(index); return;