Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] reiserfs: Add missing calls to reiserfs_security_free()

Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.kernel.lsm,gmane.comp.file-systems.reiserfs.general,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.stable
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 2022-11-10 at 10:46 +0100, Roberto Sassu wrote:
> From: Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>
> 
> Commit 57fe60df6241 ("reiserfs: add atomic addition of selinux attributes
> during inode creation") defined reiserfs_security_free() to free the name
> and value of a security xattr allocated by the active LSM through
> security_old_inode_init_security(). However, this function is not called
> in the reiserfs code.
> 
> Thus, add a call to reiserfs_security_free() whenever
> reiserfs_security_init() is called, and initialize value to NULL, to avoid
> to call kfree() on an uninitialized pointer.
> 
> Finally, remove the kfree() for the xattr name, as it is not allocated
> anymore.
> 
> Fixes: 57fe60df6241 ("reiserfs: add atomic addition of selinux attributes during inode creation")
> Cc: [email protected]
> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <[email protected]>
> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <[email protected]>
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