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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
Subject: [39/91] UBIFS: fix a rare memory leak in ro to rw remounting path
Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:15:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110616001613.149096699@clark.kroah.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110616001900.GA25375@kroah.com>

2.6.32-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------

From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>

commit eaeee242c531cd4b0a4a46e8b5dd7ef504380c42 upstream.

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@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 fs/ubifs/sb.c    |    3 ++-
 fs/ubifs/super.c |    1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/ubifs/sb.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/sb.c
@@ -474,7 +474,8 @@ 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)
 {
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -1550,6 +1550,7 @@ static int ubifs_remount_rw(struct ubifs
 		}
 		sup->leb_cnt = cpu_to_le32(c->leb_cnt);
 		err = ubifs_write_sb_node(c, sup);
+		kfree(sup);
 		if (err)
 			goto out;
 	}



  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-16  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-16  0:19 [00/91] 2.6.32.42-longterm review Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:14 ` [01/91] ftrace: Only update the function code on write to filter files Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:14 ` [02/91] kmemleak: Do not return a pointer to an object that kmemleak did not get Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [03/91] [CPUFREQ] CPU hotplug, re-create sysfs directory and symlinks Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [04/91] [CPUFREQ] Fix memory leak in cpufreq_stat Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [05/91] powerpc/kexec: Fix memory corruption from unallocated slaves Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [06/91] powerpc/oprofile: Handle events that raise an exception without overflowing Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [07/91] block: rescan partitions on invalidated devices on -ENOMEDIA Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [08/91] block: add proper state guards to __elv_next_request Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [09/91] mtd: mtdconcat: fix NAND OOB write Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [10/91] x86, 64-bit: Fix copy_[to/from]_user() checks for the Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [11/91] ext3: Fix fs corruption when make_indexed_dir() fails Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [12/91] jbd: Fix forever sleeping process in do_get_write_access() Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [13/91] jbd: fix fsync() tid wraparound bug Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [14/91] ext4: release page cache in ext4_mb_load_buddy error path Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [15/91] [SCSI] Fix Ultrastor asm snippet Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [16/91] x86, amd: Do not enable ARAT feature on AMD processors below Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [17/91] x86, amd: Use _safe() msr access for GartTlbWlk disable code Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [18/91] rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftests Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [19/91] staging: usbip: fix wrong endian conversion Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [20/91] Fix for buffer overflow in ldm_frag_add not sufficient Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [21/91] seqlock: Dont smp_rmb in seqlock reader spin loop Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [22/91] ALSA: HDA: Use one dmic only for Dell Studio 1558 Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [23/91] ASoC: Ensure output PGA is enabled for line outputs in Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [24/91] ASoC: Add some missing volume update bit sets for wm_hubs Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [25/91] mm/page_alloc.c: prevent unending loop in Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [26/91] PCI: allow matching of prefetchable resources to Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [27/91] loop: limit max_part module param to DISK_MAX_PARTS Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [28/91] loop: handle on-demand devices correctly Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [29/91] USB: CP210x Add 4 Device IDs for AC-Services Devices Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [30/91] USB: moto_modem: Add USB identifier for the Motorola VE240 Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [31/91] USB: serial: ftdi_sio: adding support for TavIR STK500 Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [32/91] USB: gamin_gps: Fix for data transfer problems in native Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [33/91] usb/gadget: at91sam9g20 fix end point max packet size Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [34/91] usb: gadget: rndis: dont test against req->length Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [35/91] xhci: Fix full speed bInterval encoding Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [36/91] OHCI: fix regression caused by nVidia shutdown workaround Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [37/91] p54usb: add zoom 4410 usbid Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [38/91] eCryptfs: Allow 2 scatterlist entries for encrypted Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [40/91] i8k: Avoid lahf in 64-bit code Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [53/91] UBIFS: fix shrinker object count reports Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [54/91] UBIFS: fix memory leak on error path Greg KH
2011-06-16  0:15 ` [55/91] nbd: limit module parameters to a sane value Greg KH
2011-06-17 20:36 ` [Stable-review] [00/91] 2.6.32.42-longterm review Nikola Ciprich
2011-06-20 22:28   ` Greg KH

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