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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-11-23 18:18:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> | 2013-01-16 16:44:56 -0500 |
| commit | 74351de89460e502c99439c98dc134b7cf3c9a0e (patch) | |
| tree | 6a1c1428f734da199188bf3882b50a337d87b34b | |
| parent | f6c2e2e164b47b0c742ae89f266b05933e07e918 (diff) | |
inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure
commit a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab upstream.
If inotify_init is unable to allocate a new file for the new inotify
group we leak the new group. This patch drops the reference on the
group on file allocation failure.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c index 0c6bbc031f1..72f88255260 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(inotify_init1, int, flags) if (ret >= 0) return ret; + fsnotify_put_group(group); atomic_dec(&user->inotify_devs); out_free_uid: free_uid(user); |