[PATCH] fix task_struct leak in ptrace

[Christoph Hellwig]

When ptrace_attach fails we need to drop the task_struct reference.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>

Index: linux-2.6/kernel/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/ptrace.c	2005-11-11 00:10:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/ptrace.c	2005-11-11 00:11:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@
 
 	if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH) {
 		ret = ptrace_attach(child);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_put_task_struct;
 	}
 
 	ret = ptrace_check_attach(child, request == PTRACE_KILL);
-
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