inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:18:37 +0000 (18:18 -0500)
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:14:22 +0000 (16:14 -0500)
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>
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c

index 444c305a468c531b7e9e8dda803a2d650a257c58..4cd5d5d78f9fa2b85f38bd9422efc3d387780295 100644 (file)
@@ -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);