linux-ext4 - [PATCH v13 26/51] xfs: Plug memory leak in xfs_attrmulti_attr

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Date:	Tue,  3 Nov 2015 16:17:02 +0100
From:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
To:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...chiereds.net>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...marydata.com>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@...app.com>,
	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v13 26/51] xfs: Plug memory leak in xfs_attrmulti_attr_set

When setting attributes via XFS_IOC_ATTRMULTI_BY_HANDLE, the user-space
buffer is copied into a new kernel-space buffer via memdup_user; that
buffer then isn't freed.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
---
 fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
index ea7d85a..e939c20 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_set(
 	__uint32_t		flags)
 {
 	unsigned char		*kbuf;
+	int			error;
 
 	if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode) || IS_APPEND(inode))
 		return -EPERM;
@@ -492,7 +493,9 @@ xfs_attrmulti_attr_set(
 	if (IS_ERR(kbuf))
 		return PTR_ERR(kbuf);
 
-	return xfs_attr_set(XFS_I(inode), name, kbuf, len, flags);
+	error = xfs_attr_set(XFS_I(inode), name, kbuf, len, flags);
+	kfree(kbuf);
+	return error;
 }
 
 int
-- 
2.5.0

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