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authorSantosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com>2012-03-02 01:17:26 -0500
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2012-03-06 22:46:53 -0500
commitb0f8ef202ec7f07ba9bd93150d54ef4327851422 (patch)
treec5d7c9cfd330f2c950680b0c2febdf2c19431933 /fs
parent55062d061790b43aee01ab3f9ac57b8596254f19 (diff)
cifs: possible memory leak in xattr.
Memory is allocated irrespective of whether CIFS_ACL is configured or not. But free is happenning only if CIFS_ACL is set. This is a possible memory leak scenario. Fix is: Allocate and free memory only if CIFS_ACL is configured. Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishpargaonkar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/xattr.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/xattr.c b/fs/cifs/xattr.c
index 45f07c46f3ed..10d92cf57ab6 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/xattr.c
@@ -105,7 +105,6 @@ int cifs_setxattr(struct dentry *direntry, const char *ea_name,
105 struct cifs_tcon *pTcon; 105 struct cifs_tcon *pTcon;
106 struct super_block *sb; 106 struct super_block *sb;
107 char *full_path; 107 char *full_path;
108 struct cifs_ntsd *pacl;
109 108
110 if (direntry == NULL) 109 if (direntry == NULL)
111 return -EIO; 110 return -EIO;
@@ -164,23 +163,24 @@ int cifs_setxattr(struct dentry *direntry, const char *ea_name,
164 cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR); 163 cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_MAP_SPECIAL_CHR);
165 } else if (strncmp(ea_name, CIFS_XATTR_CIFS_ACL, 164 } else if (strncmp(ea_name, CIFS_XATTR_CIFS_ACL,
166 strlen(CIFS_XATTR_CIFS_ACL)) == 0) { 165 strlen(CIFS_XATTR_CIFS_ACL)) == 0) {
166#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ACL
167 struct cifs_ntsd *pacl;
167 pacl = kmalloc(value_size, GFP_KERNEL); 168 pacl = kmalloc(value_size, GFP_KERNEL);
168 if (!pacl) { 169 if (!pacl) {
169 cFYI(1, "%s: Can't allocate memory for ACL", 170 cFYI(1, "%s: Can't allocate memory for ACL",
170 __func__); 171 __func__);
171 rc = -ENOMEM; 172 rc = -ENOMEM;
172 } else { 173 } else {
173#ifdef CONFIG_CIFS_ACL
174 memcpy(pacl, ea_value, value_size); 174 memcpy(pacl, ea_value, value_size);
175 rc = set_cifs_acl(pacl, value_size, 175 rc = set_cifs_acl(pacl, value_size,
176 direntry->d_inode, full_path, CIFS_ACL_DACL); 176 direntry->d_inode, full_path, CIFS_ACL_DACL);
177 if (rc == 0) /* force revalidate of the inode */ 177 if (rc == 0) /* force revalidate of the inode */
178 CIFS_I(direntry->d_inode)->time = 0; 178 CIFS_I(direntry->d_inode)->time = 0;
179 kfree(pacl); 179 kfree(pacl);
180 }
180#else 181#else
181 cFYI(1, "Set CIFS ACL not supported yet"); 182 cFYI(1, "Set CIFS ACL not supported yet");
182#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_ACL */ 183#endif /* CONFIG_CIFS_ACL */
183 }
184 } else { 184 } else {
185 int temp; 185 int temp;
186 temp = strncmp(ea_name, POSIX_ACL_XATTR_ACCESS, 186 temp = strncmp(ea_name, POSIX_ACL_XATTR_ACCESS,