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efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()

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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>
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Vamshi K Sthambamkadi 2020-10-23 17:24:39 +05:30 committed by Ard Biesheuvel
parent fbc81ec5b8
commit fe5186cf12
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@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ 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 = {