From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 08:25:35 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Revert "ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs_info() error path"
X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=91cbf01178c37086b32148c53e24b04cb77557cf;p=linux.git

Revert "ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs_info() error path"

This reverts commit 9163e0184bd7d5f779934d34581843f699ad2ffd.

At the point when ubifs_fill_super() runs, we have already a reference
to the super block. So upon deactivate_locked_super() c will get
free()'ed via ->kill_sb().

Cc: Wenwen Wang <wenwen@cs.uga.edu>
Fixes: 9163e0184bd7 ("ubifs: Fix memory leak bug in alloc_ubifs_info() error path")
Reported-by: https://twitter.com/grsecurity/status/1180609139359277056
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Tested-by: Romain Izard <romain.izard.pro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
---

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/super.c b/fs/ubifs/super.c
index 7d4547e5202de..5e1e8ec0589eb 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/super.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/super.c
@@ -2267,10 +2267,8 @@ static struct dentry *ubifs_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
 		}
 	} else {
 		err = ubifs_fill_super(sb, data, flags & SB_SILENT ? 1 : 0);
-		if (err) {
-			kfree(c);
+		if (err)
 			goto out_deact;
-		}
 		/* We do not support atime */
 		sb->s_flags |= SB_ACTIVE;
 		if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UBIFS_ATIME_SUPPORT))