[Devel] [PATCH v2] ext4: release leaked posix acl in ext4_xattr_set_acl

[Stanislav Kinsburskiy]

Note: only rh7-3.10.0-693.17.1.el7-based kernels are affcted.
I.e. starting from rh7-3.10.0-693.17.1.vz7.43.1.

Posix acl is used to convert of an extended attribute, provided by user to
ext4 attributes. In particular to i_mode in case of ACL_TYPE_ACCESS request.
IOW, this object is allocated, used for convertion, not stored anywhere and
must be freed.
However posix_acl_update_mode() can zerofy the pointer to support
ext4_set_acl() logic, but then the object is leaked.
So, fix it by releasing new temporary pointer with the same value instead of
acl pointer.

https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-81384

RHEL bug URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1543020

v2: Added affected kernel version + RHEL bug URL

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky at virtuozzo.com>
---
 fs/ext4/acl.c |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/acl.c b/fs/ext4/acl.c
index 917e819..f8a38a2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/acl.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/acl.c
@@ -403,7 +403,7 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
 {
 	struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
 	handle_t *handle;
-	struct posix_acl *acl;
+	struct posix_acl *acl, *real_acl;
 	int error, retries = 0;
 	int update_mode = 0;
 	umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
@@ -416,7 +416,7 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	if (value) {
-		acl = posix_acl_from_xattr(&init_user_ns, value, size);
+		acl = real_acl = posix_acl_from_xattr(&init_user_ns, value, size);
 		if (IS_ERR(acl))
 			return PTR_ERR(acl);
 		else if (acl) {
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
 				goto release_and_out;
 		}
 	} else
-		acl = NULL;
+		acl = real_acl = NULL;
 
 retry:
 	handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_HT_XATTR,
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
 		goto retry;
 
 release_and_out:
-	posix_acl_release(acl);
+	posix_acl_release(real_acl);
 	return error;
 }