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* [PATCH v3] fs/exfat: resolve memory leak from exfat_create_upcase_table()
@ 2024-09-16 23:05 Daniel Yang
  2024-09-17  6:40 ` Namjae Jeon
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Daniel Yang @ 2024-09-16 23:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: viro, Namjae Jeon, Sungjong Seo, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel
  Cc: Daniel Yang, syzbot+e1c69cadec0f1a078e3d

    If exfat_load_upcase_table reaches end and returns -EINVAL,
    allocated memory doesn't get freed and while
    exfat_load_default_upcase_table allocates more memory, leading to a    
    memory leak.
    
    Here's link to syzkaller crash report illustrating this issue:
    https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=CrashReport&x=1406c201980000

Signed-off-by: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@gmail.com>
Reported-by: syzbot+e1c69cadec0f1a078e3d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
---
V2 -> V3: free(NULL) is no-op, removed if() check
V1 -> V2: Moved the mem free to create_upcase_table

 fs/exfat/nls.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/exfat/nls.c b/fs/exfat/nls.c
index afdf13c34..1ac011088 100644
--- a/fs/exfat/nls.c
+++ b/fs/exfat/nls.c
@@ -779,8 +779,11 @@ int exfat_create_upcase_table(struct super_block *sb)
 				le32_to_cpu(ep->dentry.upcase.checksum));
 
 			brelse(bh);
-			if (ret && ret != -EIO)
+			if (ret && ret != -EIO) {
+				/* free memory from exfat_load_upcase_table call */
+				exfat_free_upcase_table(sbi);
 				goto load_default;
+			}
 
 			/* load successfully */
 			return ret;
-- 
2.39.2


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* Re: [PATCH v3] fs/exfat: resolve memory leak from exfat_create_upcase_table()
  2024-09-16 23:05 [PATCH v3] fs/exfat: resolve memory leak from exfat_create_upcase_table() Daniel Yang
@ 2024-09-17  6:40 ` Namjae Jeon
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Namjae Jeon @ 2024-09-17  6:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Daniel Yang
  Cc: viro, Sungjong Seo, linux-fsdevel, linux-kernel,
	syzbot+e1c69cadec0f1a078e3d

On Tue, Sep 17, 2024 at 8:05 AM Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     If exfat_load_upcase_table reaches end and returns -EINVAL,
>     allocated memory doesn't get freed and while
>     exfat_load_default_upcase_table allocates more memory, leading to a
>     memory leak.
>
>     Here's link to syzkaller crash report illustrating this issue:
>     https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=CrashReport&x=1406c201980000
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Yang <danielyangkang@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: syzbot+e1c69cadec0f1a078e3d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> ---
> V2 -> V3: free(NULL) is no-op, removed if() check
> V1 -> V2: Moved the mem free to create_upcase_table
Applied it to #dev now.
Thanks for your work!

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