Commit b5c66bab authored Feb 22, 2017 by Cong Wang Committed by Linus Torvalds Feb 22, 2017

9p: fix a potential acl leak

posix_acl_update_mode() could possibly clear 'acl', if so we leak the
memory pointed by 'acl'.  Save this pointer before calling
posix_acl_update_mode() and release the memory if 'acl' really gets
cleared.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486678332-2430-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 612dafab

fs/9p/acl.c

+2 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static int v9fs_xattr_set_acl(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
		case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS:
		if (acl) {
		struct iattr iattr;
		struct posix_acl *old_acl = acl;

		retval = posix_acl_update_mode(inode, &iattr.ia_mode, &acl);
		if (retval)
		@@ -287,6 +288,7 @@ static int v9fs_xattr_set_acl(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
		* by the mode bits. So don't
		* update ACL.
		*/
		posix_acl_release(old_acl);
		value = NULL;
		size = 0;
		}

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