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| author | Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> | 2010-11-23 18:18:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-01-07 13:58:32 -0800 |
| commit | 51b491044a371635e678255f525117751b09ffb9 (patch) | |
| tree | d8e9a465e8399795a4d8740eb7d2cc1fbe2120aa /fs | |
| parent | e87167421ba16d8b2ddd06154f6ce21070051348 (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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -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 bf7f6d776c31..5b7c6fe7fb61 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -751,6 +751,7 @@ 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); |