4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> commit eef19816ada3abd56d9f20c88794cc2fea83ebb2 upstream. Allocate the buffer after we return early. Otherwise memory is being leaked. Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: 1e51764a3c2a ("UBIFS: add new flash file system") Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- fs/ubifs/lprops.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/fs/ubifs/lprops.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/lprops.c @@ -1091,10 +1091,6 @@ static int scan_check_cb(struct ubifs_in } } - buf = __vmalloc(c->leb_size, GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL); - if (!buf) - return -ENOMEM; - /* * After an unclean unmount, empty and freeable LEBs * may contain garbage - do not scan them. @@ -1113,6 +1109,10 @@ static int scan_check_cb(struct ubifs_in return LPT_SCAN_CONTINUE; } + buf = __vmalloc(c->leb_size, GFP_NOFS, PAGE_KERNEL); + if (!buf) + return -ENOMEM; + sleb = ubifs_scan(c, lnum, 0, buf, 0); if (IS_ERR(sleb)) { ret = PTR_ERR(sleb);