d2ac7ec47f
commit 3d2fc4c082448e9c05792f9b2a11c1d5db408b85 upstream.
The memtype seq_file iterator allocates a buffer in the ->start and ->next
functions and frees it in the ->show function. The preferred handling for
such resources is to free them in the subsequent ->next or ->stop function
call.
Since Commit 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration
code and interface") there is no guarantee that ->show will be called
after ->next, so this function can now leak memory.
So move the freeing of the buffer to ->next and ->stop.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161248539022.21478.13874455485854739066.stgit@noble1
Fixes: 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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