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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: [Resend Patch] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a wrong free
Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 12:45:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080506044535.GH2893@hack> (raw)


In kmalloc failing path, we shouldn't free pointers in 'info',
because the struct 'info' is uninitilized when kmalloc is called.

And when kmalloc returns NULL, it's needless to kfree it.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@zeuux.org>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

--
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index f6d5a9d..357b503 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file, un
 	/* alloc memory for large data structures: too large to be on stack */
 	elf = kmalloc(sizeof(*elf), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!elf)
-		goto cleanup;
+		goto out;
 	
 	segs = current->mm->map_count;
 #ifdef ELF_CORE_EXTRA_PHDRS
@@ -2034,8 +2034,9 @@ end_coredump:
 	set_fs(fs);
 
 cleanup:
-	kfree(elf);
 	free_note_info(&info);
+	kfree(elf);
+out:
 	return has_dumped;
 }
 

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