[PATCH] cifs: possible memory leak in xattr.

From: santosh nayak
Date: Fri Mar 02 2012 - 01:18:17 EST


From: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@xxxxxxxxx>

Memory is allocated irrespective of whether CIFS_ACL is configured
or not. But free is happenning only if CIFS_ACL is set. This is a
possible memory leak scenario.

Fix is:
Allocate and free memory only if CIFS_ACL is configured.

Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cifs/xattr.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/xattr.c b/fs/cifs/xattr.c
index 45f07c4..10d92cf 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/xattr.c
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ int cifs_setxattr(struct dentry *direntry, const char *ea_name,
struct cifs_tcon *pTcon;
struct super_block *sb;
char *full_path;
- struct cifs_ntsd *pacl;

if (direntry == NULL)
return -EIO;
@@ -164,23 +163,24 @@ int cifs_setxattr(struct dentry *direntry, const char *ea_name,
cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR);
} else if (strncmp(ea_name, CIFS_XATTR_CIFS_ACL,
strlen(CIFS_XATTR_CIFS_ACL)) == 0) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ACL
+ struct cifs_ntsd *pacl;
pacl = kmalloc(value_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pacl) {
cFYI(1, "%s: Can't allocate memory for ACL",
__func__);
rc = -ENOMEM;
} else {
-#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ACL
memcpy(pacl, ea_value, value_size);
rc = set_cifs_acl(pacl, value_size,
direntry->d_inode, full_path, CIFS_ACL_DACL);
if (rc == 0) /* force revalidate of the inode */
CIFS_I(direntry->d_inode)->time = 0;
kfree(pacl);
+ }
#else
cFYI(1, "Set CIFS ACL not supported yet");
#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_ACL */
- }
} else {
int temp;
temp = strncmp(ea_name, POSIX_ACL_XATTR_ACCESS,
--
1.7.4.4

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