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[PATCH 4.18 117/171] ext4: fix buffer leak in ext4_xattr_get_block() on error path

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2018-11-19 16:45:37
Also in: lkml

4.18-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Vasily Averin <redacted>

commit ecaaf408478b6fb4d9986f9b6652f3824e374f4c upstream.

Fixes: dec214d00e0d ("ext4: xattr inode deduplication")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # 4.13
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/ext4/xattr.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/ext4/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/xattr.c
@@ -2282,8 +2282,10 @@ static struct buffer_head *ext4_xattr_ge
 	if (!bh)
 		return ERR_PTR(-EIO);
 	error = ext4_xattr_check_block(inode, bh);
-	if (error)
+	if (error) {
+		brelse(bh);
 		return ERR_PTR(error);
+	}
 	return bh;
 }
 
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