ext4: fix memory leak when symlink decryption fails

This bug was introduced in v4.8-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

diff --git a/fs/ext4/symlink.c b/fs/ext4/symlink.c
index 4d83d9e..04a7850 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/ext4/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/symlink.c
@@ -65,13 +65,12 @@ static const char *ext4_encrypted_get_link(struct dentry *dentry,
        res = fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer(inode, cstr.len, &pstr);
        if (res)
                goto errout;
+       paddr = pstr.name;
 
        res = fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr(inode, 0, 0, &cstr, &pstr);
        if (res < 0)
                goto errout;
 
-       paddr = pstr.name;
-
        /* Null-terminate the name */
        if (res <= pstr.len)
                paddr[res] = '\0';