From: Dave Jones Subject: ext4: fix memory leak in xattr code. Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 10:29:18 -0400 Message-ID: <20130920142918.GA21988@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andreas Dilger , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: tytso@mit.edu Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org If we take the 2nd retry path in ext4_expand_extra_isize_ea, we potentionally return from the function without having freed these allocations. If we don't do the return, we over-write the previous allocation pointers, so we leak either way. Spotted with Coverity. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones diff --git a/fs/ext4/xattr.c b/fs/ext4/xattr.c index c081e34..f3a6220 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c +++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c @@ -1350,6 +1350,8 @@ retry: s_min_extra_isize) { tried_min_extra_isize++; new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize; + kfree(is); + kfree(bs); goto retry; } error = -1;