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| author | Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-03-10 20:55:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-03-10 23:55:11 +0100 |
| commit | be50b8342dead8cacf57d4839240106b225d31f5 (patch) | |
| tree | a5f40b583e4c008313b090426fa785d178348e76 /kernel/user.c | |
| parent | mtd: physmap: fix NULL pointer dereference in error path (diff) | |
| download | linux-be50b8342dead8cacf57d4839240106b225d31f5.tar.xz linux-be50b8342dead8cacf57d4839240106b225d31f5.zip | |
kernel/user.c: fix a memory leak when freeing up non-init usernamespaces users
We were returning early in the sysfs directory cleanup function if the
user belonged to a non init usernamespace. Due to this a lot of the
cleanup was not done and we were left with a leak. Fix the leak.
Reported-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/user.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/user.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c index 6a9b696128c8..fbb300e6191f 100644 --- a/kernel/user.c +++ b/kernel/user.c @@ -286,14 +286,12 @@ int __init uids_sysfs_init(void) /* work function to remove sysfs directory for a user and free up * corresponding structures. */ -static void remove_user_sysfs_dir(struct work_struct *w) +static void cleanup_user_struct(struct work_struct *w) { struct user_struct *up = container_of(w, struct user_struct, work); unsigned long flags; int remove_user = 0; - if (up->user_ns != &init_user_ns) - return; /* Make uid_hash_remove() + sysfs_remove_file() + kobject_del() * atomic. */ @@ -312,9 +310,11 @@ static void remove_user_sysfs_dir(struct work_struct *w) if (!remove_user) goto done; - kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE); - kobject_del(&up->kobj); - kobject_put(&up->kobj); + if (up->user_ns == &init_user_ns) { + kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE); + kobject_del(&up->kobj); + kobject_put(&up->kobj); + } sched_destroy_user(up); key_put(up->uid_keyring); @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags) atomic_inc(&up->__count); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags); - INIT_WORK(&up->work, remove_user_sysfs_dir); + INIT_WORK(&up->work, cleanup_user_struct); schedule_work(&up->work); } |