The patch below does not apply to the 3.8-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <[email protected]>.
thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From 3e36a16375eee390a9d80f99499fe630efa08128 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 17:13:55 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] ext4: fix possible memory leak in ext4_remount() 'orig_data' is malloced in ext4_remount() and should be freed before leaving from the error handling cases, otherwise it will cause memory leak. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c index 1ae5860..6ac9c8a 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/super.c +++ b/fs/ext4/super.c @@ -4543,6 +4543,7 @@ static int ext4_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data) if (!old_opts.s_qf_names[i]) { for (j = 0; j < i; j++) kfree(old_opts.s_qf_names[j]); + kfree(orig_data); return -ENOMEM; } } else -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
