[PATCH v2 2/5] xfs: Plug memory leak in xfs_attrmulti_attr_set

Andreas Gruenbacher agruenba at redhat.com
Fri Oct 30 10:05:05 CDT 2015


When setting attributes via XFS_IOC_ATTRMULTI_BY_HANDLE, the user-space
buffer is copied into a new kernel-space buffer via memdup_user; that
buffer then isn't freed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba at redhat.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
index ea7d85a..e939c20 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_set(
 	__uint32_t		flags)
 {
 	unsigned char		*kbuf;
+	int			error;
 
 	if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
 		return -EPERM;
@@ -492,7 +493,9 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_set(
 	if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
 		return PTR_ERR(kbuf);
 
-	return xfs_attr_set(XFS_I(inode), name, kbuf, len, flags);
+	error = xfs_attr_set(XFS_I(inode), name, kbuf, len, flags);
+	kfree(kbuf);
+	return error;
 }
 
 int
-- 
2.5.0



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