linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: fix memleak of inode's shared xattr array

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Date:   Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:10:04 +0800
From:   Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>
To:     Sheng Yong <shengyong1@...wei.com>
CC:     <yuchao0@...wei.com>, <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        <linux-erofs@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <chao@...nel.org>,
        Miao Xie <miaoxie@...wei.com>,
        "fangwei (I)" <fangwei1@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: erofs: fix memleak of inode's shared xattr
 array



On 2019/2/14 14:46, Sheng Yong wrote:
> If it fails to read a shared xattr page, the inode's shared xattr array
> is not freed. The next time the inode's xattr is accessed, the previously
> allocated array is leaked.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@...wei.com>

LGTM,

Fixes: b17500a0fdba ("staging: erofs: introduce xattr & acl support")
Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org> # 4.19+
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@...wei.com>

[and there is also another race condition in it, but different root cause.
let me fix it later independently...]

Thanks,
Gao Xiang