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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-11-23 18:18:37 -0500
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>2011-02-06 11:03:41 -0800
commita1a584f5c28939e5c11d062b233599034748d6dd (patch)
tree6da1f7c2ec91ddd72689444fdf64a42adcc1668c /fs
parent6559ff535c6a7d61eb22295ddf390ac917f46275 (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> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index 0c6bbc031f15..72f882552608 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);