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author | André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> | 2010-03-10 18:21:22 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-12 18:52:32 -0500 |
commit | 6e3e37a5a7c91045497553bcbd6a5faea98b21b3 (patch) | |
tree | 10aabb16410477cb65057e96a3bff804423675e2 /include | |
parent | 5cacdb4add1b1e50fe75edc50ebbb7bddd9cf5e7 (diff) |
coredump: plug a memory leak situation on dump_seek()
After having started writing the coredump, if filesystem reports an error
anytime while writing part of the core file, we would leak a memory page
when bailing out.
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/coredump.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/coredump.h b/include/linux/coredump.h index b3c91d7cede4..8ba66a9d9022 100644 --- a/include/linux/coredump.h +++ b/include/linux/coredump.h | |||
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ static inline int dump_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int nr) | |||
16 | 16 | ||
17 | static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off) | 17 | static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off) |
18 | { | 18 | { |
19 | int ret = 1; | ||
20 | |||
19 | if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) { | 21 | if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) { |
20 | if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, SEEK_CUR) < 0) | 22 | if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, SEEK_CUR) < 0) |
21 | return 0; | 23 | return 0; |
@@ -29,13 +31,15 @@ static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off) | |||
29 | 31 | ||
30 | if (n > PAGE_SIZE) | 32 | if (n > PAGE_SIZE) |
31 | n = PAGE_SIZE; | 33 | n = PAGE_SIZE; |
32 | if (!dump_write(file, buf, n)) | 34 | if (!dump_write(file, buf, n)) { |
33 | return 0; | 35 | ret = 0; |
36 | break; | ||
37 | } | ||
34 | off -= n; | 38 | off -= n; |
35 | } | 39 | } |
36 | free_page((unsigned long)buf); | 40 | free_page((unsigned long)buf); |
37 | } | 41 | } |
38 | return 1; | 42 | return ret; |
39 | } | 43 | } |
40 | 44 | ||
41 | #endif /* _LINUX_COREDUMP_H */ | 45 | #endif /* _LINUX_COREDUMP_H */ |