From: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> commit 91cbf01178c37086b32148c53e24b04cb77557cf upstream. This reverts commit 9163e0184bd7d5f779934d34581843f699ad2ffd. At the point when ubifs_fill_super() runs, we have already a reference to the super block. So upon deactivate_locked_super() c will get free()'ed via ->kill_sb(). Cc: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 9163e0184bd7 ("ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs_info() error path") Reported-by: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1180609139359277056 Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Tested-by: Romain Izard <romain.izard.pro@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ubifs/super.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ubifs/super.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c @@ -2267,10 +2267,8 @@ static struct dentry *ubifs_mount(struct } } else { err = ubifs_fill_super(sb, data, flags & SB_SILENT ? 1 : 0); - if (err) { - kfree(c); + if (err) goto out_deact; - } /* We do not support atime */ sb->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE; if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UBIFS_ATIME_SUPPORT))