linux-kernel - [34-longterm 045/179] UBIFS: fix memory leak on error path

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Date:	Mon, 14 May 2012 22:12:21 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	<stable@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [34-longterm 045/179] UBIFS: fix memory leak on error path

From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>

                   -------------------
    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
                   -------------------

commit 812eb258311f89bcd664a34a620f249d54a2cd83 upstream.

UBIFS leaks memory on error path in 'ubifs_jnl_update()' in case of write
failure because it forgets to free the 'struct ubifs_dent_node *dent' object.
Although the object is small, the alignment can make it large - e.g., 2KiB
if the min. I/O unit is 2KiB.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@...ia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 fs/ubifs/journal.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/journal.c b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
index d321bae..841f77c 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/journal.c
@@ -665,6 +665,7 @@ out_free:
 
 out_release:
 	release_head(c, BASEHD);
+	kfree(dent);
 out_ro:
 	ubifs_ro_mode(c, err);
 	if (last_reference)
-- 
1.7.9.6

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