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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-11-24 00:18:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-12-07 22:14:22 +0100 |
| commit | a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab (patch) | |
| tree | 9de9f2c95163bf53b44413de542f5be528ff302f /fs/notify/inotify | |
| parent | fanotify: on group destroy allow all waiters to bypass permission check (diff) | |
| download | linux-a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab.tar.xz linux-a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab.zip | |
inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure
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>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify/inotify')
| -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 444c305a468c..4cd5d5d78f9f 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ 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); |