Re: [PATCH 5/5] efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we clean upcorrectly on error

From: Jeremy Kerr
Date: Thu Oct 11 2012 - 10:04:33 EST


Hi Andy,

@@ -969,16 +970,18 @@
return -ENOMEM;

list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, n, &efivars->list, list) {
- struct inode *inode;
struct dentry *dentry, *root = efivarfs_sb->s_root;
- char *name;
unsigned long size = 0;
int len, i;

+ inode = NULL;
+
len = utf16_strlen(entry->var.VariableName);

/* GUID plus trailing NULL */
name = kmalloc(len + 38, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!name)
+ goto fail;

for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
name[i] = entry->var.VariableName[i] & 0xFF;
@@ -991,7 +994,13 @@

inode = efivarfs_get_inode(efivarfs_sb, root->d_inode,
S_IFREG | 0644, 0);
+ if (!inode)
+ goto fail_name;
+
dentry = d_alloc_name(root, name);
+ if (!dentry)
+ goto fail_inode;
+
/* copied by the above to local storage in the dentry. */
kfree(name);

If we break out of the loop on the second (and onwards) iteration, won't we still have the other inodes and dentries remaining allocated?

Cheers,


Jeremy

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