From b5c66bab72a6a65edb15beb60b90d3cb84c5763b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:40:53 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 9p: fix a potential acl leak
posix_acl_update_mode() could possibly clear 'acl', if so we leak the
memory pointed by 'acl'. Save this pointer before calling
posix_acl_update_mode() and release the memory if 'acl' really gets
cleared.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486678332-2430-1-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich@sandia.gov>
Cc: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
fs/9p/acl.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/9p/acl.c b/fs/9p/acl.c
index b3c2cc79c20d..082d227fa56b 100644
--- a/fs/9p/acl.c
+++ b/fs/9p/acl.c
@@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static int v9fs_xattr_set_acl(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
case ACL_TYPE_ACCESS:
if (acl) {
struct iattr iattr;
+ struct posix_acl *old_acl = acl;
retval = posix_acl_update_mode(inode, &iattr.ia_mode, &acl);
if (retval)
@@ -287,6 +288,7 @@ static int v9fs_xattr_set_acl(const struct xattr_handler *handler,
* by the mode bits. So don't
* update ACL.
*/
+ posix_acl_release(old_acl);
value = NULL;
size = 0;
}