Commit a2ae4cc9 authored Nov 23, 2010 by Eric Paris

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>

parent 09e5f14e

fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Original line	Diff line number	Diff line
	@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(inotify_init1, int, flags)
	if (ret >= 0)		if (ret >= 0)
	return ret;		return ret;

			fsnotify_put_group(group);
	atomic_dec(&user->inotify_devs);		atomic_dec(&user->inotify_devs);
	out_free_uid:		out_free_uid:
	free_uid(user);		free_uid(user);