[PATCH] [35/99] UBIFS: fix memory leak on error path

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Jul 27 2011 - 18:05:57 EST


2.6.35-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>

commit 812eb258311f89bcd664a34a620f249d54a2cd83 upstream.

UBIFS leaks memory on error path in 'ubifs_jnl_update()' in case of write
failure because it forgets to free the 'struct ubifs_dent_node *dent' object.
Although the object is small, the alignment can make it large - e.g., 2KiB
if the min. I/O unit is 2KiB.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
fs/ubifs/journal.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/fs/ubifs/journal.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ out_free:

out_release:
release_head(c, BASEHD);
+ kfree(dent);
out_ro:
ubifs_ro_mode(c, err);
if (last_reference)
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