linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs

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Message-Id: <20191024082535.1022-1-richard@nod.at>
Date:   Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:25:35 +0200
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs_info() error path"

This reverts commit 9163e0184bd7d5f779934d34581843f699ad2ffd.

At the point when ubifs_fill_super() runs, we have already a reference
to the super block. So upon deactivate_locked_super() c will get
free()'ed via ->kill_sb().

Cc: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@...uga.edu>
Fixes: 9163e0184bd7 ("ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs_info() error path")
Reported-by: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1180609139359277056
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
---
 fs/ubifs/super.c | 4 +---
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 7d4547e5202d..5e1e8ec0589e 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -2267,10 +2267,8 @@ static struct dentry *ubifs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
 		}
 	} else {
 		err = ubifs_fill_super(sb, data, flags & SB_SILENT ? 1 : 0);
-		if (err) {
-			kfree(c);
+		if (err)
 			goto out_deact;
-		}
 		/* We do not support atime */
 		sb->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE;
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UBIFS_ATIME_SUPPORT))
-- 
2.16.4