Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/exofs: fix potential memory leak in mount option parsing

From: cgxu519
Date: Wed Jun 20 2018 - 22:14:59 EST


Hi Boaz,

Could you have a look at this trivial patch?

Thanks,
Chengguang.

On 06/13/2018 12:05 PM, Chengguang Xu wrote:
There are some cases can cause memory leak when parsing
option 'osdname'.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@xxxxxxx>
---
fs/exofs/super.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/exofs/super.c b/fs/exofs/super.c
index 719a315..f3e17a9 100644
--- a/fs/exofs/super.c
+++ b/fs/exofs/super.c
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ static int parse_options(char *options, struct exofs_mountopt *opts)
token = match_token(p, tokens, args);
switch (token) {
case Opt_name:
+ kfree(opts->dev_name);
opts->dev_name = match_strdup(&args[0]);
if (unlikely(!opts->dev_name)) {
EXOFS_ERR("Error allocating dev_name");
@@ -867,8 +868,10 @@ static struct dentry *exofs_mount(struct file_system_type *type,
int ret;
ret = parse_options(data, &opts);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ kfree(opts.dev_name);
return ERR_PTR(ret);
+ }
if (!opts.dev_name)
opts.dev_name = dev_name;