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authorEugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru>2012-11-09 00:11:11 +0400
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2014-02-11 01:11:28 +0400
commit41d4b0bae2fffc6558ac846199caee5baa8dd7f2 (patch)
treed0cdc582deb49f375b46fd37f6234dd06e578e66
parent3b73beed27b6ad3877b7257ae17419930b8ae90c (diff)
downloadlinux-41d4b0bae2fffc6558ac846199caee5baa8dd7f2.tar.xz
ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_xattr_set_acl()'s error path
commit 24ec19b0ae83a385ad9c55520716da671274b96c upstream. In ext4_xattr_set_acl(), if ext4_journal_start() returns an error, posix_acl_release() will not be called for 'acl' which may result in a memory leak. This patch fixes that. Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/ext4/acl.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index 8a2a29d35a6f..f14fa786dad0 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -442,8 +442,10 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
retry:
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
- if (IS_ERR(handle))
- return PTR_ERR(handle);
+ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+ error = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ goto release_and_out;
+ }
error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))