[ 048/173] ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_xattr_set_acl()s error path

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Dec 28 2012 - 14:27:41 EST


3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 24ec19b0ae83a385ad9c55520716da671274b96c upstream.

In ext4_xattr_set_acl(), if ext4_journal_start() returns an error,
posix_acl_release() will not be called for 'acl' which may result in a
memory leak.

This patch fixes that.

Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/acl.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index d3c5b88..e6e0d98 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -423,8 +423,10 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,

retry:
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
- if (IS_ERR(handle))
- return PTR_ERR(handle);
+ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+ error = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ goto release_and_out;
+ }
error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))


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