hostfs: fix memory handling in follow_link()
1) argument should not be freed in any case - the caller already has
it as ->s_fs_info (and uses it a lot afterwards)
2) allocate readlink buffer with kmalloc() - the caller has no way
to tell if it's got that (on absolute symlink) or a result of
kasprintf(). Sure, for SLAB and SLUB kfree() works on results of
kmem_cache_alloc(), but that's not documented anywhere, might change
in the future *and* is already not true for SLOB.
Fixes: 52b209f7b848 ("get rid of hostfs_read_inode()")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
index 29e4077..743a005a5 100644
--- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
+++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@
char *name, *resolved, *end;
int n;
- name = __getname();
+ name = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name) {
n = -ENOMEM;
goto out_free;
@@ -173,12 +173,11 @@
goto out_free;
}
- __putname(name);
- kfree(link);
+ kfree(name);
return resolved;
out_free:
- __putname(name);
+ kfree(name);
return ERR_PTR(n);
}
