From: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>

commit 3d2fc4c082448e9c05792f9b2a11c1d5db408b85 upstream.

The memtype seq_file iterator allocates a buffer in the ->start and ->next
functions and frees it in the ->show function.  The preferred handling for
such resources is to free them in the subsequent ->next or ->stop function
call.

Since Commit 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration
code and interface") there is no guarantee that ->show will be called
after ->next, so this function can now leak memory.

So move the freeing of the buffer to ->next and ->stop.

Link: 
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161248539022.21478.13874455485854739066.stgit@noble1
Fixes: 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and 
interface")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien....@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <l...@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.han...@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <da...@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <cor...@lwn.net>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leit...@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhor...@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasev...@gmail.com>
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c
@@ -1164,12 +1164,14 @@ static void *memtype_seq_start(struct se
 
 static void *memtype_seq_next(struct seq_file *seq, void *v, loff_t *pos)
 {
+       kfree(v);
        ++*pos;
        return memtype_get_idx(*pos);
 }
 
 static void memtype_seq_stop(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
 {
+       kfree(v);
 }
 
 static int memtype_seq_show(struct seq_file *seq, void *v)
@@ -1181,8 +1183,6 @@ static int memtype_seq_show(struct seq_f
                        entry_print->end,
                        cattr_name(entry_print->type));
 
-       kfree(entry_print);
-
        return 0;
 }
 


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