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ext4: fix memory leak in xattr

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commit 6e4ea8e33b2057b85d75175dd89b93f5e26de3bc upstream.

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.

[ Fixed by tytso to set is and bs to NULL after freeing these
  pointers, in case in the retry loop we later end up triggering an
  error causing a jump to cleanup, at which point we could have a double
  free bug. -- Ted ]

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Dave Jones 2013-10-10 20:05:35 -04:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 0ffc34c0d0
commit 546a50594e
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@ -1271,6 +1271,8 @@ retry:
s_min_extra_isize) {
tried_min_extra_isize++;
new_extra_isize = s_min_extra_isize;
kfree(is); is = NULL;
kfree(bs); bs = NULL;
goto retry;
}
error = -1;