linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 3/3] btrfs: Use kfree() in btrfs_ioctl_get_subvol

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Date:   Tue, 14 Apr 2020 15:29:33 -0400
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>, Chris Mason <clm@...com>,
        Josef Bacik <josef@...icpanda.com>,
        David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>
Cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, keyrings@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org,
        Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] btrfs: Use kfree() in btrfs_ioctl_get_subvol_info()

In btrfs_ioctl_get_subvol_info(), there is a classic case where kzalloc()
was incorrectly paired with kzfree(). According to David Sterba, there
isn't any sensitive information in the subvol_info that needs to be
cleared before freeing. So kfree_sensitive() isn't really needed,
use kfree() instead.

Reported-by: David Sterba <dsterba@...e.cz>
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index eab3f8510426..5070bd2436b7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -2691,7 +2691,7 @@ static int btrfs_ioctl_get_subvol_info(struct file *file, void __user *argp)
 	btrfs_put_root(root);
 out_free:
 	btrfs_free_path(path);
-	kfree_sensitive(subvol_info);
+	kfree(subvol_info);
 	return ret;
 }
 
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