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ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_xattr_set_acl()'s error path

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commit 24ec19b0ae upstream.

In ext4_xattr_set_acl(), if ext4_journal_start() returns an error,
posix_acl_release() will not be called for 'acl' which may result in a
memory leak.

This patch fixes that.

Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Eugene Shatokhin 2012-11-08 15:11:11 -05:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 2c44276891
commit 9d4cbf806e
1 changed files with 4 additions and 2 deletions
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@ -450,8 +450,10 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
retry:
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
if (IS_ERR(handle))
return PTR_ERR(handle);
if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
error = PTR_ERR(handle);
goto release_and_out;
}
error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))