[PATCH] fdtable: Delete pointless code in dup_fd()

The dup_fd() function creates a new files_struct and fdtable embedded inside
that files_struct, and then possibly expands the fdtable using expand_files().

The out_release error path is invoked when expand_files() returns an error
code.  However, when this attempt to expand fails, the fdtable is left in its
original embedded form, so it is pointless to try to free the associated
fdarray and fdsets.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Lobanov <vlobanov@speakeasy.net>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 086e172d0d3d..30eab4f063cd 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -711,8 +711,10 @@ static struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *oldf, int *errorp)
         old_fds = old_fdt->fd;
         new_fds = new_fdt->fd;
 
-        memcpy(new_fdt->open_fds->fds_bits, old_fdt->open_fds->fds_bits, open_files/8);
-        memcpy(new_fdt->close_on_exec->fds_bits, old_fdt->close_on_exec->fds_bits, open_files/8);
+        memcpy(new_fdt->open_fds->fds_bits,
+                old_fdt->open_fds->fds_bits, open_files/8);
+        memcpy(new_fdt->close_on_exec->fds_bits,
+                old_fdt->close_on_exec->fds_bits, open_files/8);
 
         for (i = open_files; i != 0; i--) {
                 struct file *f = *old_fds++;
@@ -745,14 +747,11 @@ static struct files_struct *dup_fd(struct files_struct *oldf, int *errorp)
                 memset(&new_fdt->close_on_exec->fds_bits[start], 0, left);
         }
 
-out:
         return newf;
 
 out_release:
-        free_fdset (new_fdt->close_on_exec, new_fdt->max_fdset);
-        free_fdset (new_fdt->open_fds, new_fdt->max_fdset);
-        free_fd_array(new_fdt->fd, new_fdt->max_fds);
         kmem_cache_free(files_cachep, newf);
+out:
         return NULL;
 }