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authorSergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru>2006-03-25 18:36:37 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-04-07 09:44:29 -0700
commit097189fd249125617092ae9b57e36b7d87a5c1bf (patch)
tree0b892229a5a69fca6af7a0688f2669fb0a077ab1
parent6f9d7d9822f3448cd5794306ccd6bde9a6c5dd8e (diff)
[PATCH] Fix module refcount leak in __set_personality()
If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain, __set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference acquired by lookup_exec_domain(). This patch was already included in Linus' tree. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--kernel/exec_domain.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/exec_domain.c b/kernel/exec_domain.c
index 867d6dbeb57..c01cead2cfd 100644
--- a/kernel/exec_domain.c
+++ b/kernel/exec_domain.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ __set_personality(u_long personality)
ep = lookup_exec_domain(personality);
if (ep == current_thread_info()->exec_domain) {
current->personality = personality;
+ module_put(ep->module);
return 0;
}