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efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" 

The memory leak addressed by commit fe5186cf12 is a false positive:
all allocations are recorded in a linked list, and freed when the
filesystem is unmounted. This leads to double frees, and as reported
by David, leads to crashes if SLUB is configured to self destruct when
double frees occur.

So drop the redundant kfree() again, and instead, mark the offending
pointer variable so the allocation is ignored by kmemleak.

Cc: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com>
Fixes: fe5186cf12 ("efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()")
Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Ard Biesheuvel 2020-11-25 08:45:55 +01:00
parent 50bdcf0475
commit ff04f3b6f2
2 changed files with 2 additions and 1 deletions
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fs/efivarfs/inode.c
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@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include <linux/efi.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/kmemleak.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/uuid.h>
@ -103,6 +104,7 @@ static int efivarfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
var->var.VariableName[i] = '\0';
inode->i_private = var;
kmemleak_ignore(var);
err = efivar_entry_add(var, &efivarfs_list);
if (err)

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fs/efivarfs/super.c
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@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ LIST_HEAD(efivarfs_list);
static void efivarfs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
clear_inode(inode);
kfree(inode->i_private);
}
static const struct super_operations efivarfs_ops = {