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ubifs: fix a memory leak bug

Message ID 1566270227-8302-1-git-send-email-wenwen@cs.uga.edu
State Accepted
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Series ubifs: fix a memory leak bug | expand

Commit Message

Wenwen Wang Aug. 20, 2019, 3:03 a.m. UTC 
In read_znode(), the indexing node 'idx' is allocated by kmalloc().
However, it is not deallocated in the following execution if
ubifs_node_check_hash() fails, leading to a memory leak bug. To fix this
issue, free 'idx' before returning the error.

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
---
 fs/ubifs/tnc_misc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/fs/ubifs/tnc_misc.c b/fs/ubifs/tnc_misc.c
index 6f293f6..49cb34c 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/tnc_misc.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/tnc_misc.c
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@  static int read_znode(struct ubifs_info *c, struct ubifs_zbranch *zzbr,
 	err = ubifs_node_check_hash(c, idx, zzbr->hash);
 	if (err) {
 		ubifs_bad_hash(c, idx, zzbr->hash, lnum, offs);
+		kfree(idx);
 		return err;
 	}