From: Mårten Lindahl <marten.lindahl@xxxxxxxx> commit 3a36d20e012903f45714df2731261fdefac900cb upstream. If renaming a file in an encrypted directory, function fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for a file name. This name is never used, and before returning to the caller the memory for it is not freed. When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The report below is triggered by a simple program 'rename' that renames a file in an encrypted directory: unreferenced object 0xffff888101502840 (size 32): comm "rename", pid 9404, jiffies 4302582475 (age 435.735s) backtrace: __kmem_cache_alloc_node __kmalloc fscrypt_setup_filename do_rename ubifs_rename vfs_rename do_renameat2 To fix this we can remove the call to fscrypt_setup_filename as it's not needed. Fixes: 278d9a243635f26 ("ubifs: Rename whiteout atomically") Reported-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mårten Lindahl <marten.lindahl@xxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ubifs/dir.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c @@ -358,7 +358,6 @@ static struct inode *create_whiteout(str umode_t mode = S_IFCHR | WHITEOUT_MODE; struct inode *inode; struct ubifs_info *c = dir->i_sb->s_fs_info; - struct fscrypt_name nm; /* * Create an inode('nlink = 1') for whiteout without updating journal, @@ -369,10 +368,6 @@ static struct inode *create_whiteout(str dbg_gen("dent '%pd', mode %#hx in dir ino %lu", dentry, mode, dir->i_ino); - err = fscrypt_setup_filename(dir, &dentry->d_name, 0, &nm); - if (err) - return ERR_PTR(err); - inode = ubifs_new_inode(c, dir, mode, false); if (IS_ERR(inode)) { err = PTR_ERR(inode); @@ -395,7 +390,6 @@ out_inode: make_bad_inode(inode); iput(inode); out_free: - fscrypt_free_filename(&nm); ubifs_err(c, "cannot create whiteout file, error %d", err); return ERR_PTR(err); }