fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/ntfs3: Fix memory leak on ntfs_fill_super() error path
syzbot reported kmemleak as below:
BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8880122f1540 (size 32): comm "a.out", pid 6664, jiffies 4294939771 (age 25.500s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ed ff ed ff 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [] ntfs_init_fs_context+0x22/0x1c0 [] alloc_fs_context+0x217/0x430 [] path_mount+0x704/0x1080 [] __x64_sys_mount+0x18c/0x1d0 [] do_syscall_64+0x34/0xb0 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
This patch fixes this issue by freeing mount options on error path of ntfs_fill_super().
Affected products
3- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 5.15
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