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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
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fs/ext4/acl.c

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@@ -423,8 +423,10 @@ ext4_xattr_set_acl(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name, const void *value,
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retry:
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handle = ext4_journal_start(inode, EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(inode->i_sb));
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if (IS_ERR(handle))
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return PTR_ERR(handle);
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if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
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error = PTR_ERR(handle);
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goto release_and_out;
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}
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error = ext4_set_acl(handle, inode, type, acl);
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ext4_journal_stop(handle);
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if (error == -ENOSPC && ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries))

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