ext4: fix memory leak in ext4_xattr_set_acl()'s error path
In ext4_xattr_set_acl(), if ext4_journal_start() returns an error,
posix_acl_release() will not be called for 'acl' which may result in a
memory leak.
This patch fixes that.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Czerner <lczerner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index d3c5b88..e6e0d98 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -423,8 +423,10 @@
retry:
handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
- if (IS_ERR(handle))
- return PTR_ERR(handle);
+ if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
+ error = PTR_ERR(handle);
+ goto release_and_out;
+ }
error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl);
ext4_journal_stop(handle);
if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))