[PATCH] CacheFiles: Fix memory leak in cachefiles_check_auxdataerror paths

From: Josh Boyer
Date: Tue Sep 10 2013 - 10:19:40 EST


We kmalloc auxbuf but fail to kfree it if we get errors in various places.
Rework the error paths to avoid the resource leak.

Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
index 34c88b8..f929ab6 100644
--- a/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/cachefiles/xattr.c
@@ -176,20 +176,28 @@ int cachefiles_check_auxdata(struct cachefiles_object *object)

auxbuf->len = vfs_getxattr(dentry, cachefiles_xattr_cache,
&auxbuf->type, 512 + 1);
- if (auxbuf->len < 1)
- return -ESTALE;
+ if (auxbuf->len < 1) {
+ ret = -ESTALE;
+ goto error;
+ }

- if (auxbuf->type != object->fscache.cookie->def->type)
- return -ESTALE;
+ if (auxbuf->type != object->fscache.cookie->def->type) {
+ ret = -ESTALE;
+ goto error;
+ }

dlen = auxbuf->len - 1;
ret = fscache_check_aux(&object->fscache, &auxbuf->data, dlen);

- kfree(auxbuf);
- if (ret != FSCACHE_CHECKAUX_OKAY)
- return -ESTALE;
+ if (ret != FSCACHE_CHECKAUX_OKAY) {
+ ret = -ESTALE;
+ goto error;
+ }

- return 0;
+ ret = 0;
+error:
+ kfree(auxbuf);
+ return ret;
}

/*
--
1.8.3.1

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