Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup()

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Mon Jul 21 2008 - 04:43:20 EST


[Al Viro - Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:28:57AM +0100]
| On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04:27PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
| > err = mnt_alloc_id(mnt);
| > - if (err) {
| > - kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
| > - return NULL;
| > + if (err)
| > + goto err;
|
| Ugh... Labels are in a separate namespace, but really...
|
| > + if (name) {
| > + mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
| > + if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
| > + goto err;
|
| > +err:
| > + kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
| > + return NULL;
|
| Leak; note the mnt_alloc_id() above. Either do that kstrdup() first and
| kfree the result on mnt_alloc_id() failure or do mnt_free_id() on kstrdup()
| one...
|

ok, here is an update version. labels names could be not that good
choosen (check please).

- Cyrill -
---

Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/namespace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/namespace.c 2008-07-21 11:34:37.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/fs/namespace.c 2008-07-21 12:40:12.000000000 +0400
@@ -112,9 +112,13 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char
int err;

err = mnt_alloc_id(mnt);
- if (err) {
- kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
- return NULL;
+ if (err)
+ goto out_free_cache;
+
+ if (name) {
+ mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
+ goto out_free_id;
}

atomic_set(&mnt->mnt_count, 1);
@@ -127,16 +131,14 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave_list);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave);
atomic_set(&mnt->__mnt_writers, 0);
- if (name) {
- int size = strlen(name) + 1;
- char *newname = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (newname) {
- memcpy(newname, name, size);
- mnt->mnt_devname = newname;
- }
- }
}
return mnt;
+
+out_free_id:
+ mnt_free_id(mnt);
+out_free_cache:
+ kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
+ return NULL;
}

/*
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