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From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: [PATCH 1/10] sysfs: fix kmem_cache_free(NULL)
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:50:28 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070716135028.GA2040@APFDCB5C> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070716134855.GA1858@APFDCB5C>

This patch fixes out of memory error handling in sysfs_new_dirent().
kmem_cache_free() with NULL is not allowed.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

---
 fs/sysfs/dir.c |   13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6-mm/fs/sysfs/dir.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6-mm.orig/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ 2.6-mm/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -361,20 +361,20 @@ static struct dentry_operations sysfs_de
 struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(const char *name, umode_t mode, int type)
 {
 	char *dup_name = NULL;
-	struct sysfs_dirent *sd = NULL;
+	struct sysfs_dirent *sd;
 
 	if (type & SYSFS_COPY_NAME) {
 		name = dup_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!name)
-			goto err_out;
+			return NULL;
 	}
 
 	sd = kmem_cache_zalloc(sysfs_dir_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!sd)
-		goto err_out;
+		goto err_out1;
 
 	if (sysfs_alloc_ino(&sd->s_ino))
-		goto err_out;
+		goto err_out2;
 
 	atomic_set(&sd->s_count, 1);
 	atomic_set(&sd->s_active, 0);
@@ -386,9 +386,10 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(co
 
 	return sd;
 
- err_out:
-	kfree(dup_name);
+ err_out2:
 	kmem_cache_free(sysfs_dir_cachep, sd);
+ err_out1:
+	kfree(dup_name);
 	return NULL;
 }
 

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-16 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 13:48 [PATCH 0/10] CPU hotplug error handling fixes Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:50 ` Akinobu Mita [this message]
2007-07-16 15:43   ` [PATCH 1/10] sysfs: fix kmem_cache_free(NULL) Greg KH
2007-07-16 16:53     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-17  7:04       ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-07-16 13:51 ` [PATCH 2/10] sysdev: add error check in sysdev_register() Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 15:12   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-16 16:18     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:52 ` [PATCH 3/10] sysfs: fix error handling in create_files() Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 15:29   ` Cornelia Huck
2007-07-16 16:28     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 16:29     ` Greg KH
2007-07-17 16:22       ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:53 ` [PATCH 4/10] cpu: deliver CPU_UP_CANCELED only to NOTIFY_OKed callbacks with CPU_UP_PREPARE Akinobu Mita
2007-07-17  8:23   ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-07-17 17:18     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-18  6:54       ` Gautham R Shenoy
2007-07-18 16:28         ` Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:54 ` [PATCH 5/10] topology: remove topology_dev_map Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:57 ` [PATCH 6/10] thermal_throttle: fix cpu hotplug error handling Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:58 ` [PATCH 7/10] msr: " Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 13:58 ` [PATCH 8/10] cpuid: " Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 14:00 ` [PATCH 9/10] mce: " Akinobu Mita
2007-07-16 14:01 ` [PATCH 10/10] intel_cacheinfo: " Akinobu Mita

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