[PATCH-next] fs/cifs: Fix resource leak

Khaled ROMDHANI khaledromdhani216 at gmail.com
Tue May 4 13:22:57 UTC 2021


The -EIO error return path is leaking memory allocated
to page. Fix this by invoking the free_dentry_path before
the return.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Resource leak")
Signed-off-by: Khaled ROMDHANI <khaledromdhani216 at gmail.com>
---
 fs/cifs/link.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/cifs/link.c b/fs/cifs/link.c
index 1cbe7ec73728..1485c6095ba1 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/link.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/link.c
@@ -686,8 +686,10 @@ cifs_symlink(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct inode *inode,
 	void *page = alloc_dentry_path();
 	struct inode *newinode = NULL;
 
-	if (unlikely(cifs_forced_shutdown(cifs_sb)))
+	if (unlikely(cifs_forced_shutdown(cifs_sb))) {
+		free_dentry_path(page);
 		return -EIO;
+	}
 
 	xid = get_xid();
 
-- 
2.17.1




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