2024-05-22 12:25:17

by Trond Myklebust

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFSv4: Fix memory leak in nfs4_set_security_label

On Wed, 2024-05-22 at 10:45 +0300, Dmitry Mastykin wrote:
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> We leak nfs_fattr and nfs4_label every time we set a security xattr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Mastykin <[email protected]>
> ---
>  fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
> index ea390db94b62..d400093a2fff 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c
> @@ -6268,6 +6268,7 @@ nfs4_set_security_label(struct inode *inode,
> const void *buf, size_t buflen)
>         if (status == 0)
>                 nfs_setsecurity(inode, fattr);
>
> +       nfs_free_fattr(fattr);
>         return status;
>  }
>  #endif /* CONFIG_NFS_V4_SECURITY_LABEL */
> --
> 2.30.2
>

Thanks! For future reference, please note the section on indenting in
the file Documentation/process/coding-style.rst as your patch above was
whitespace-broken and so didn't apply cleanly.
Since this was just a 1-liner, I've fixed it up for now, so no need to
resubmit.

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Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer, Hammerspace
[email protected]