Commit 6fdcc216 authored by Peter Staubach's avatar Peter Staubach Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] memory leak in dentry_open()

There is a memory leak possible in dentry_open().  If get_empty_filp()
fails, then the references to dentry and mnt need to be released.  The
attached patch adds the calls to dput() and mntput() to release these two
references.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 5c7ad510
...@@ -887,6 +887,10 @@ struct file *nameidata_to_filp(struct nameidata *nd, int flags) ...@@ -887,6 +887,10 @@ struct file *nameidata_to_filp(struct nameidata *nd, int flags)
return filp; return filp;
} }
/*
* dentry_open() will have done dput(dentry) and mntput(mnt) if it returns an
* error.
*/
struct file *dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt, int flags) struct file *dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt, int flags)
{ {
int error; int error;
...@@ -894,8 +898,11 @@ struct file *dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt, int flags) ...@@ -894,8 +898,11 @@ struct file *dentry_open(struct dentry *dentry, struct vfsmount *mnt, int flags)
error = -ENFILE; error = -ENFILE;
f = get_empty_filp(); f = get_empty_filp();
if (f == NULL) if (f == NULL) {
dput(dentry);
mntput(mnt);
return ERR_PTR(error); return ERR_PTR(error);
}
return __dentry_open(dentry, mnt, flags, f, NULL); return __dentry_open(dentry, mnt, flags, f, NULL);
} }
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