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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-09-16 23:12:47 +0000
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-09-16 23:12:47 +0000
commit5a07cdf86c1485b570789fb660c8ada7c2635b23 (patch)
treedff7e4481c0866b7feae969d14c03ee61eddc494
parenta23d30698190f05491a6096f027311f94d4d26d5 (diff)
[CIFS] fix small memory leak in an error path in new posix mkdir
There is a small memory leak in fs/cifs/inode.c::cifs_mkdir(). Storage for 'pInfo' is allocated with kzalloc(), but if the call to CIFSPOSIXCreate(...) happens to return 0 and pInfo->Type == -1, then we'll jump to the 'mkdir_get_info' label without freeing the storage allocated for 'pInfo'. This patch adds a kfree() call to free the storage just before jumping to the label, thus getting rid of the leak. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/inode.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index e800c0ef54f6..9dffa93d6bdd 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -930,8 +930,10 @@ int cifs_mkdir(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, int mode)
d_drop(direntry);
} else {
int obj_type;
- if (pInfo->Type == -1) /* no return info - go query */
+ if (pInfo->Type == -1) /* no return info - go query */ {
+ kfree(pInfo);
goto mkdir_get_info;
+ }
/*BB check (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SET_UID ) to see if need
to set uid/gid */
inc_nlink(inode);
@@ -941,8 +943,10 @@ int cifs_mkdir(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, int mode)
direntry->d_op = &cifs_dentry_ops;
newinode = new_inode(inode->i_sb);
- if (newinode == NULL)
+ if (newinode == NULL) {
+ kfree(pInfo);
goto mkdir_get_info;
+ }
/* Is an i_ino of zero legal? */
/* Are there sanity checks we can use to ensure that
the server is really filling in that field? */