From: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com
commit fe5186cf12e30facfe261e9be6c7904a170bd822 upstream.
kmemleak report: unreferenced object 0xffff9b8915fcb000 (size 4096): comm "efivarfs.sh", pid 2360, jiffies 4294920096 (age 48.264s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 2d 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 -............... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<00000000cc4d897c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x155/0x4b0 [<000000007d1dfa72>] efivarfs_create+0x6e/0x1a0 [<00000000e6ee18fc>] path_openat+0xe4b/0x1120 [<000000000ad0414f>] do_filp_open+0x91/0x100 [<00000000ce93a198>] do_sys_openat2+0x20c/0x2d0 [<000000002a91be6d>] do_sys_open+0x46/0x80 [<000000000a854999>] __x64_sys_openat+0x20/0x30 [<00000000c50d89c9>] do_syscall_64+0x38/0x90 [<00000000cecd6b5f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
In efivarfs_create(), inode->i_private is setup with efivar_entry object which is never freed.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201023115429.GA2479@cosmos Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel ardb@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- fs/efivarfs/super.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/fs/efivarfs/super.c b/fs/efivarfs/super.c index 834615f13f3e..7808a26bd33f 100644 --- a/fs/efivarfs/super.c +++ b/fs/efivarfs/super.c @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ 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 = {