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authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-09-16 19:12:47 -0400
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>2007-09-16 19:12:47 -0400
commit5a07cdf86c1485b570789fb660c8ada7c2635b23 (patch)
treedff7e4481c0866b7feae969d14c03ee61eddc494 /fs
parenta23d30698190f05491a6096f027311f94d4d26d5 (diff)
[CIFS] fix small memory leak in an error path in new posix mkdir
There is a small memory leak in fs/cifs/inode.c::cifs_mkdir(). Storage for 'pInfo' is allocated with kzalloc(), but if the call to CIFSPOSIXCreate(...) happens to return 0 and pInfo->Type == -1, then we'll jump to the 'mkdir_get_info' label without freeing the storage allocated for 'pInfo'. This patch adds a kfree() call to free the storage just before jumping to the label, thus getting rid of the leak. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/inode.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/cifs/inode.c b/fs/cifs/inode.c
index e800c0ef54f6..9dffa93d6bdd 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/inode.c
@@ -930,8 +930,10 @@ int cifs_mkdir(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, int mode)
930 d_drop(direntry); 930 d_drop(direntry);
931 } else { 931 } else {
932 int obj_type; 932 int obj_type;
933 if (pInfo->Type == -1) /* no return info - go query */ 933 if (pInfo->Type == -1) /* no return info - go query */ {
934 kfree(pInfo);
934 goto mkdir_get_info; 935 goto mkdir_get_info;
936 }
935/*BB check (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SET_UID ) to see if need 937/*BB check (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SET_UID ) to see if need
936 to set uid/gid */ 938 to set uid/gid */
937 inc_nlink(inode); 939 inc_nlink(inode);
@@ -941,8 +943,10 @@ int cifs_mkdir(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, int mode)
941 direntry->d_op = &cifs_dentry_ops; 943 direntry->d_op = &cifs_dentry_ops;
942 944
943 newinode = new_inode(inode->i_sb); 945 newinode = new_inode(inode->i_sb);
944 if (newinode == NULL) 946 if (newinode == NULL) {
947 kfree(pInfo);
945 goto mkdir_get_info; 948 goto mkdir_get_info;
949 }
946 /* Is an i_ino of zero legal? */ 950 /* Is an i_ino of zero legal? */
947 /* Are there sanity checks we can use to ensure that 951 /* Are there sanity checks we can use to ensure that
948 the server is really filling in that field? */ 952 the server is really filling in that field? */