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smb: client: fix memory leak during error handling for POSIX mkdir
commit 1fe4a44 upstream. The response buffer for the CREATE request handled by smb311_posix_mkdir() is leaked on the error path (goto err_free_rsp_buf) because the structure pointer *rsp passed to free_rsp_buf() is not assigned until *after* the error condition is checked. As *rsp is initialised to NULL, free_rsp_buf() becomes a no-op and the leak is instead reported by __kmem_cache_shutdown() upon subsequent rmmod of cifs.ko if (and only if) the error path has been hit. Pass rsp_iov.iov_base to free_rsp_buf() instead, similar to the code in other functions in smb2pdu.c for which *rsp is assigned late. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jethro Donaldson <devel@jro.nz> Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> (cherry picked from commit d8843fb1a253e7318b9678ee08e61c4aaf60171c)
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@@ -2979,7 +2979,7 @@ int smb311_posix_mkdir(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
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/* Eventually save off posix specific response info and timestaps */
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err_free_rsp_buf:
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free_rsp_buf(resp_buftype, rsp);
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free_rsp_buf(resp_buftype, rsp_iov.iov_base);
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kfree(pc_buf);
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err_free_req:
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cifs_small_buf_release(req);

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