[PATCH] ovl: Fix potential memory leak

From: Stanislav Goriainov
Date: Mon Aug 22 2022 - 07:53:34 EST


ovl: Fix potential memory leak in ovl_lookup()

If memory for uperredirect was allocated with kstrdup()
in upperdir != NULL and d.redirect != NULL path,
it may be lost when upperredirect is reassigned later.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Goriainov <goriainov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
index 69dc577974f8..226c69812379 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
@@ -1085,6 +1085,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
.mnt = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs),
};

+ kfree(upperredirect);
upperredirect = ovl_get_redirect_xattr(ofs, &upperpath, 0);
if (IS_ERR(upperredirect)) {
err = PTR_ERR(upperredirect);
--
2.34.1