linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 08/18] nfs: Fix potential posix_acl refcnt leak in nfs3_set

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Message-Id: <20200504165443.418280924@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Mon,  4 May 2020 19:57:06 +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, Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@...an.edu.cn>,
        Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>,
        Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 08/18] nfs: Fix potential posix_acl refcnt leak in nfs3_set_acl

From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>

commit 7648f939cb919b9d15c21fff8cd9eba908d595dc upstream.

nfs3_set_acl keeps track of the acl it allocated locally to determine if an acl
needs to be released at the end.  This results in a memory leak when the
function allocates an acl as well as a default acl.  Fix by releasing acls
that differ from the acl originally passed into nfs3_set_acl.

Fixes: b7fa0554cf1b ("[PATCH] NFS: Add support for NFSv3 ACLs")
Reported-by: Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@...an.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@...hat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@...merspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c |   22 +++++++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs3acl.c
@@ -213,37 +213,45 @@ int nfs3_proc_setacls(struct inode *inod
 
 int nfs3_set_acl(struct inode *inode, struct posix_acl *acl, int type)
 {
-	struct posix_acl *alloc = NULL, *dfacl = NULL;
+	struct posix_acl *orig = acl, *dfacl = NULL, *alloc;
 	int status;
 
 	if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) {
 		switch(type) {
 		case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS:
-			alloc = dfacl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
+			alloc = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT);
 			if (IS_ERR(alloc))
 				goto fail;
+			dfacl = alloc;
 			break;
 
 		case ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT:
-			dfacl = acl;
-			alloc = acl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
+			alloc = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS);
 			if (IS_ERR(alloc))
 				goto fail;
+			dfacl = acl;
+			acl = alloc;
 			break;
 		}
 	}
 
 	if (acl == NULL) {
-		alloc = acl = posix_acl_from_mode(inode->i_mode, GFP_KERNEL);
+		alloc = posix_acl_from_mode(inode->i_mode, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (IS_ERR(alloc))
 			goto fail;
+		acl = alloc;
 	}
 	status = __nfs3_proc_setacls(inode, acl, dfacl);
-	posix_acl_release(alloc);
+out:
+	if (acl != orig)
+		posix_acl_release(acl);
+	if (dfacl != orig)
+		posix_acl_release(dfacl);
 	return status;
 
 fail:
-	return PTR_ERR(alloc);
+	status = PTR_ERR(alloc);
+	goto out;
 }
 
 const struct xattr_handler *nfs3_xattr_handlers[] = {