Re: [PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Fix possible memory leak in ocfs2_finish_quota_recovery

From: Jan Kara
Date: Wed Apr 02 2025 - 08:37:20 EST


On Wed 02-04-25 09:56:27, Murad Masimov wrote:
> If ocfs2_finish_quota_recovery() exits due to an error before passing all
> rc_list elements to ocfs2_recover_local_quota_file() then it can lead to
> a memory leak as rc_list may still contain elements that have to be freed.
>
> Release all memory allocated by ocfs2_add_recovery_chunk() using
> ocfs2_free_quota_recovery() instead of kfree().
>
> Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
>
> Fixes: 2205363dce74 ("ocfs2: Implement quota recovery")
> Signed-off-by: Murad Masimov <m.masimov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good. Thanks for debugging this! Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>

Honza

> ---
> fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c b/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> index 2956d888c131..e60383d6ecc1 100644
> --- a/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> +++ b/fs/ocfs2/quota_local.c
> @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ int ocfs2_finish_quota_recovery(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
> }
> out:
> up_read(&sb->s_umount);
> - kfree(rec);
> + ocfs2_free_quota_recovery(rec);
> return status;
> }
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>
--
Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR