[PATCH] ext4: Fix invalid free of cache->name after ext4_mb_init() error

From: Chris Wilson
Date: Mon Jan 24 2011 - 08:42:55 EST


The name allocated for the kmem_cache was being freed in the error path even
if that name was still assigned to the newly created cache.

Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 851f49b..69b90fe 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -2423,7 +2423,6 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery)
int ret;
int cache_index;
struct kmem_cache *cachep;
- char *namep = NULL;

i = (sb->s_blocksize_bits + 2) * sizeof(*sbi->s_mb_offsets);

@@ -2443,7 +2442,7 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery)
cache_index = sb->s_blocksize_bits - EXT4_MIN_BLOCK_LOG_SIZE;
cachep = ext4_groupinfo_caches[cache_index];
if (!cachep) {
- char name[32];
+ char name[32], *namep;
int len = offsetof(struct ext4_group_info,
bb_counters[sb->s_blocksize_bits + 2]);

@@ -2459,6 +2458,7 @@ int ext4_mb_init(struct super_block *sb, int needs_recovery)
cachep = kmem_cache_create(namep, len, 0,
SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT, NULL);
if (!cachep) {
+ kfree(namep);
ret = -ENOMEM;
goto out;
}
@@ -2520,7 +2520,6 @@ out:
if (ret) {
kfree(sbi->s_mb_offsets);
kfree(sbi->s_mb_maxs);
- kfree(namep);
}
return ret;
}
--
1.7.2.3

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