[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 120/305] cuse: fix memory leak

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Fri Jan 15 2016 - 20:01:43 EST


4.2.8-ckt2 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit 2c5816b4beccc8ba709144539f6fdd764f8fa49c upstream.

The problem is that fuse_dev_alloc() acquires an extra reference to cc.fc,
and the original ref count is never dropped.

Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: cc080e9e9be1 ("fuse: introduce per-instance fuse_dev structure")
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/fuse/cuse.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/fuse/cuse.c b/fs/fuse/cuse.c
index eae2c11..8e3ee19 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/cuse.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/cuse.c
@@ -549,6 +549,8 @@ static int cuse_channel_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
unregister_chrdev_region(cc->cdev->dev, 1);
cdev_del(cc->cdev);
}
+ /* Base reference is now owned by "fud" */
+ fuse_conn_put(&cc->fc);

rc = fuse_dev_release(inode, file); /* puts the base reference */

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