linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.18 148/168] ovl: fix memory leak on unlink of indexed file

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Message-Id: <20181008175625.656311260@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  8 Oct 2018 20:32:08 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.18 148/168] ovl: fix memory leak on unlink of indexed file

4.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>

commit 63e132528032ce937126aba591a7b37ec593a6bb upstream.

The memory leak was detected by kmemleak when running xfstests
overlay/051,053

Fixes: caf70cb2ba5d ("ovl: cleanup orphan index entries")
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # v4.13
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/overlayfs/util.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@ static void ovl_cleanup_index(struct den
 	struct dentry *upperdentry = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry);
 	struct dentry *index = NULL;
 	struct inode *inode;
-	struct qstr name;
+	struct qstr name = { };
 	int err;
 
 	err = ovl_get_index_name(lowerdentry, &name);
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ static void ovl_cleanup_index(struct den
 		goto fail;
 
 out:
+	kfree(name.name);
 	dput(index);
 	return;