[PATCH 1/1] cred: fix memory leak

From: Jiri Slaby
Date: Wed Jan 06 2010 - 12:01:25 EST


Stanse found a memory leak in prepare_exec_creds. tgcred is not
freed/assigned on all paths. Fix that.

I.e. unifdef tgcred and add kfree(tgcred); as it is initialized to
NULL already.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cred.c | 6 +++---
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index dd76cfe..0e10f73 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -351,9 +351,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_exec_creds(void)
*/
struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void)
{
-#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
struct thread_group_cred *tgcred = NULL;
-#endif
struct cred *new;

#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
@@ -363,8 +361,10 @@ struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void)
#endif

new = kmem_cache_alloc(cred_jar, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (!new)
+ if (!new) {
+ kfree(tgcred);
return NULL;
+ }

kdebug("prepare_usermodehelper_creds() alloc %p", new);

--
1.6.5.7

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