linux/fs/efivarfs
Ard Biesheuvel ff04f3b6f2 efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()"
The memory leak addressed by commit fe5186cf12 is a false positive:
all allocations are recorded in a linked list, and freed when the
filesystem is unmounted. This leads to double frees, and as reported
by David, leads to crashes if SLUB is configured to self destruct when
double frees occur.

So drop the redundant kfree() again, and instead, mark the offending
pointer variable so the allocation is ignored by kmemleak.

Cc: Vamshi K Sthambamkadi <vamshi.k.sthambamkadi@gmail.com>
Fixes: fe5186cf12 ("efivarfs: fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()")
Reported-by: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2020-11-25 16:55:02 +01:00
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file.c efivarfs: Don't return -EINTR when rate-limiting reads 2020-06-15 14:38:56 +02:00
inode.c efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" 2020-11-25 16:55:02 +01:00
internal.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
Kconfig treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00
super.c efivarfs: revert "fix memory leak in efivarfs_create()" 2020-11-25 16:55:02 +01:00