Hi,
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Dave Jones <da...@redhat.com>
>
> commit 6e4ea8e33b2057b85d75175dd89b93f5e26de3bc upstream.
>
> If we take the 2nd retry path in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea, we
> potentionally return from the function without having freed these
> allocations. If we don't do the return, we over-write the previous
> allocation pointers, so we leak either way.
>
> Spotted with Coverity.
>
> [ Fixed by tytso to set is and bs to NULL after freeing these
> pointers, in case in the retry loop we later end up triggering an
> error causing a jump to cleanup, at which point we could have a double
> free bug. -- Ted ]
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <da...@fedoraproject.org>
> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <ty...@mit.edu>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sand...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
>
> ---
> fs/ext4/xattr.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
> @@ -1271,6 +1271,8 @@ retry:
> s_min_extra_isize) {
> tried_min_extra_isize++;
> new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
> + kfree(is); is = NULL;
> + kfree(bs); bs = NULL;
Looks like such lines are not conforming to coding style, or?
> goto retry;
> }
> error = -1;
>
>
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Regards,
Felipe Pena
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