[PATCH] UBIFS: Fix possible memory leak in ubifs_readdir()

[Richard Weinberger]

If ubifs_tnc_next_ent() returns something else than -ENOENT
we leak file->private_data.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
---
 fs/ubifs/dir.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ubifs/dir.c b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
index 5c27c66..cb88ea3 100644
--- a/fs/ubifs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/ubifs/dir.c
@@ -449,13 +449,14 @@ static int ubifs_readdir(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
 	}
 
 out:
+	kfree(file->private_data);
+	file->private_data = NULL;
+
 	if (err != -ENOENT) {
 		ubifs_err(c, "cannot find next direntry, error %d", err);
 		return err;
 	}
 
-	kfree(file->private_data);
-	file->private_data = NULL;
 	/* 2 is a special value indicating that there are no more direntries */
 	ctx->pos = 2;
 	return 0;
-- 
2.5.0

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