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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-06 21:54:21 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-10-06 21:54:21 -0700
commit829841146878e082613a49581ae252c071057c23 (patch)
treeb38d26d6c99f043f14242351ac084f8b088a772b
parentedb4a3534adbaf90768d67da35f0bfeac4767db6 (diff)
Avoid 'names_cache' memory leak with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
The nameidata "last.name" is always allocated with "__getname()", and should always be free'd with "__putname()". Using "putname()" without the underscores will leak memory, because the allocation will have been hidden from the AUDITSYSCALL code. Arguably the real bug is that the AUDITSYSCALL code is really broken, but in the meantime this fixes the problem people see. Reported by Robert Derr, patch by Rick Lindsley. Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--fs/namei.c6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 043d587216b5..aa62dbda93ac 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1551,19 +1551,19 @@ do_link:
if (nd->last_type != LAST_NORM)
goto exit;
if (nd->last.name[nd->last.len]) {
- putname(nd->last.name);
+ __putname(nd->last.name);
goto exit;
}
error = -ELOOP;
if (count++==32) {
- putname(nd->last.name);
+ __putname(nd->last.name);
goto exit;
}
dir = nd->dentry;
down(&dir->d_inode->i_sem);
path.dentry = __lookup_hash(&nd->last, nd->dentry, nd);
path.mnt = nd->mnt;
- putname(nd->last.name);
+ __putname(nd->last.name);
goto do_last;
}