[PATCH 7/7] UBIFS: fix a rare memory leak in ro to rw remounting path
Artem Bityutskiy
dedekind1 at gmail.com
Fri May 6 10:15:17 EDT 2011
From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
When re-mounting from R/O mode to R/W mode and the LEB count in the superblock
is not up-to date, because for the underlying UBI volume became larger, we
re-write the superblock. We allocate RAM for these purposes, but never free it.
So this is a memory leak, although very rare one.
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
Cc: stable at kernel.org
---
fs/ubifs/sb.c | 3 ++-
fs/ubifs/super.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/sb.c b/fs/ubifs/sb.c
index bf31b47..cad60b5 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/sb.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/sb.c
@@ -475,7 +475,8 @@ failed:
* @c: UBIFS file-system description object
*
* This function returns a pointer to the superblock node or a negative error
- * code.
+ * code. Note, the user of this function is responsible of kfree()'ing the
+ * returned superblock buffer.
*/
struct ubifs_sb_node *ubifs_read_sb_node(struct ubifs_info *c)
{
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 407c064..575ea83 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1585,6 +1585,7 @@ static int ubifs_remount_rw(struct ubifs_info *c)
}
sup->leb_cnt = cpu_to_le32(c->leb_cnt);
err = ubifs_write_sb_node(c, sup);
+ kfree(sup);
if (err)
goto out;
}
--
1.7.2.3
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