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David Rientjes authored
Commit 38f38657 ("xattr: extract simple_xattr code from tmpfs") moved some code from tmpfs but introduced a subtle bug along the way. If the name passed to simple_xattr_remove() does not exist in the list of xattrs, then it is possible to call kfree(new_xattr) when new_xattr is actually initialized to itself on the stack via uninitialized_var(). This causes a BUG() since the memory was not allocated via the slab allocator and was not bypassed through to the page allocator because it was too large. Initialize the local variable to NULL so the kfree() never takes place. Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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