kmemleak reported a memory leak allocated in query_info() when cifs is working with modefromsid. backtrace: [<00000000aeef6a1e>] slab_post_alloc_hook+0x58/0x510 [<00000000b2f7a440>] __kmalloc+0x1a0/0x390 [<000000006d470ebc>] query_info+0x5b5/0x700 [cifs] [<00000000bad76ce0>] SMB2_query_acl+0x2b/0x30 [cifs] [<000000001fa09606>] get_smb2_acl_by_path+0x2f3/0x720 [cifs] [<000000001b6ebab7>] get_smb2_acl+0x75/0x90 [cifs] [<00000000abf43904>] cifs_acl_to_fattr+0x13b/0x1d0 [cifs] [<00000000a5372ec3>] cifs_get_inode_info+0x4cd/0x9a0 [cifs] [<00000000388e0a04>] cifs_revalidate_dentry_attr+0x1cd/0x510 [cifs] [<0000000046b6b352>] cifs_getattr+0x8a/0x260 [cifs] [<000000007692c95e>] vfs_getattr_nosec+0xa1/0xc0 [<00000000cbc7d742>] vfs_getattr+0x36/0x40 [<00000000de8acf67>] vfs_statx_fd+0x4a/0x80 [<00000000a58c6adb>] __do_sys_newfstat+0x31/0x70 [<00000000300b3b4e>] __x64_sys_newfstat+0x16/0x20 [<000000006d8e9c48>] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x80 This patch add missing kfree for pntsd when mounting modefromsid option. Cc: Stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon <namjae.jeon@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/cifs/cifsacl.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c index 23b21e943652..ef4784e72b1d 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c +++ b/fs/cifs/cifsacl.c @@ -1266,6 +1266,7 @@ cifs_acl_to_fattr(struct cifs_sb_info *cifs_sb, struct cifs_fattr *fattr, cifs_dbg(VFS, "%s: error %d getting sec desc\n", __func__, rc); } else if (mode_from_special_sid) { rc = parse_sec_desc(cifs_sb, pntsd, acllen, fattr, true); + kfree(pntsd); } else { /* get approximated mode from ACL */ rc = parse_sec_desc(cifs_sb, pntsd, acllen, fattr, false); -- 2.17.1