Bug 2322317 (CVE-2024-50087)

Summary: CVE-2024-50087 kernel: btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free on read_alloc_one_name() error
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-29 01:02:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

btrfs: fix uninitialized pointer free on read_alloc_one_name() error

The function read_alloc_one_name() does not initialize the name field of
the passed fscrypt_str struct if kmalloc fails to allocate the
corresponding buffer.  Thus, it is not guaranteed that
fscrypt_str.name is initialized when freeing it.

This is a follow-up to the linked patch that fixes the remaining
instances of the bug introduced by commit e43eec81c516 ("btrfs: use
struct qstr instead of name and namelen pairs").