capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()
commit 8cf0a1bc upstream. In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler->get(...), there will be a memleak in below logic: |-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...) | /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */ |-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags) | /* ^^^ alloc memory */ |-- error = handler->get(handler, ...) | /* error! */ |-- *xattr_value = value | /* xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */ So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 8db6c34f ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities") Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> [PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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