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authorShankara Pailoor <shankarapailoor@gmail.com>2018-06-05 08:33:27 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-08-09 12:15:13 +0200
commit2972e3f6816c7dc0d4804ae82a3d02ffb94068dc (patch)
treed9a9a36294788290eabb0c1294247340757933f9
parent39dc3fb32fd4bf0fde9e8c971dec8228722f0a70 (diff)
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jfs: Fix inconsistency between memory allocation and ea_buf->max_size
commit 92d34134193e5b129dc24f8d79cb9196626e8d7a upstream. The code is assuming the buffer is max_size length, but we weren't allocating enough space for it. Signed-off-by: Shankara Pailoor <shankarapailoor@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <dave.kleikamp@oracle.com> Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/jfs/xattr.c10
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/jfs/xattr.c b/fs/jfs/xattr.c
index c60f3d32ee91..a6797986b625 100644
--- a/fs/jfs/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/jfs/xattr.c
@@ -491,15 +491,17 @@ static int ea_get(struct inode *inode, struct ea_buffer *ea_buf, int min_size)
if (size > PSIZE) {
/*
* To keep the rest of the code simple. Allocate a
- * contiguous buffer to work with
+ * contiguous buffer to work with. Make the buffer large
+ * enough to make use of the whole extent.
*/
- ea_buf->xattr = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ ea_buf->max_size = (size + sb->s_blocksize - 1) &
+ ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1);
+
+ ea_buf->xattr = kmalloc(ea_buf->max_size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (ea_buf->xattr == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
ea_buf->flag = EA_MALLOC;
- ea_buf->max_size = (size + sb->s_blocksize - 1) &
- ~(sb->s_blocksize - 1);
if (ea_size == 0)
return 0;