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>
tirimbino
Eric Paris 14 years ago
parent 09e5f14e57
commit a2ae4cc9a1
  1. 1
      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);

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