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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-12-23 16:57:14 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-12-23 18:58:21 -0500
commit20ca9b3f4c6dfa0af8dd5b18a64df17eb994b54d (patch)
tree508c0b887653577a2e28dc238c820178593f0f91 /kernel
parente368d3a836797ddf193b1ec18c97407a791d2451 (diff)
cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure path
If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time. I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index a3415507bd0a..2606d0fb4e54 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
1024 if (ret == -EBUSY) { 1024 if (ret == -EBUSY) {
1025 mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex); 1025 mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
1026 mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); 1026 mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
1027 goto drop_new_super; 1027 goto free_cg_links;
1028 } 1028 }
1029 1029
1030 /* EBUSY should be the only error here */ 1030 /* EBUSY should be the only error here */
@@ -1073,10 +1073,11 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
1073 1073
1074 return simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb); 1074 return simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb);
1075 1075
1076 free_cg_links:
1077 free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
1076 drop_new_super: 1078 drop_new_super:
1077 up_write(&sb->s_umount); 1079 up_write(&sb->s_umount);
1078 deactivate_super(sb); 1080 deactivate_super(sb);
1079 free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
1080 return ret; 1081 return ret;
1081} 1082}
1082 1083