[PATCH] fix page leak during core dump

When the dump cannot occur most likely because of a full file system and
the page to be written is the zero page, the call to page_cache_release()
is missed.

Signed-off-by: Brian Pomerantz <bapper@mvista.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index a2fceba7ef8e..9cc4f0a8aaae 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1704,7 +1704,10 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file)
                                 DUMP_SEEK(PAGE_SIZE);
                         } else {
                                 if (page == ZERO_PAGE(addr)) {
-                                        DUMP_SEEK(PAGE_SIZE);
+                                        if (!dump_seek(file, PAGE_SIZE)) {
+                                                page_cache_release(page);
+                                                goto end_coredump;
+                                        }
                                 } else {
                                         void *kaddr;
                                         flush_cache_page(vma, addr,