ubifs_log_start_commit() allocates a buffer with kmalloc(), this buffer is used to build UBIFS CS and REF nodes, all structure attributes get set, except for the padding field in the ubifs_ref_node. That way we leak 28 bytes of kernel memory to the MTD. Fix it by using kzalloc().
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 1e51764a3c2a ("UBIFS: add new flash file system") Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at --- fs/ubifs/log.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/ubifs/log.c b/fs/ubifs/log.c index 7cffa120a750..60d49c6dd470 100644 --- a/fs/ubifs/log.c +++ b/fs/ubifs/log.c @@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ int ubifs_log_start_commit(struct ubifs_info *c, int *ltail_lnum)
max_len = UBIFS_CS_NODE_SZ + c->jhead_cnt * UBIFS_REF_NODE_SZ; max_len = ALIGN(max_len, c->min_io_size); - buf = cs = kmalloc(max_len, GFP_NOFS); + buf = cs = kzalloc(max_len, GFP_NOFS); if (!buf) return -ENOMEM;