[PATCH 09/13] overlayfs: fix possible leak in ovl_new_inode

[Miklos Szeredi]

From: Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@xxxxxxxxx>

After allocating a new inode, if the mode of inode is incorrect, we should
release it by iput().

Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
---
 fs/overlayfs/inode.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
index 787761f..e854720 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ struct inode *ovl_new_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode,
 
 	default:
 		WARN(1, "illegal file type: %i\n", mode);
+		iput(inode);
 		inode = NULL;
 	}
 
-- 
1.7.7

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