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authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-11-24 02:18:37 +0300
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>2010-12-08 00:14:22 +0300
commita2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab (patch)
tree9de9f2c95163bf53b44413de542f5be528ff302f /fs/notify
parent09e5f14e57c70f9d357862bb56e57026c51092a1 (diff)
downloadlinux-a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab.tar.xz
inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure
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> cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/notify')
-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 444c305a468c..4cd5d5d78f9f 100644
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ 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);