ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_xattr_set_acl()'s error path

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>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index d3c5b88fd89f..e6e0d988439b 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -423,8 +423,10 @@ 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))