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* [PATCH] ecryptfs: Fix refcnt leak on ecryptfs_follow_link() error path
@ 2010-01-11 18:36 OGAWA Hirofumi
  2010-01-13 19:44 ` Al Viro
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: OGAWA Hirofumi @ 2010-01-11 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Tyler Hicks, Dustin Kirkland; +Cc: ecryptfs-devel, linux-kernel, linux-fsdevel


If ->follow_link handler return the error, it should decrement
nd->path refcnt. But, ecryptfs_follow_link() doesn't decrement.

This patch fix it by using usual nd_set_link() style error handling,
instead of playing with nd->path.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
---

 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c |   19 +++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/ecryptfs/inode.c~namei-ecryptfs-follow_link-fix fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
--- linux-2.6/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c~namei-ecryptfs-follow_link-fix	2010-01-12 00:15:10.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6-hirofumi/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c	2010-01-12 00:15:10.000000000 +0900
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ static void *ecryptfs_follow_link(struct
 	/* Released in ecryptfs_put_link(); only release here on error */
 	buf = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!buf) {
-		rc = -ENOMEM;
+		buf = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		goto out;
 	}
 	old_fs = get_fs();
@@ -723,23 +723,22 @@ static void *ecryptfs_follow_link(struct
 	rc = dentry->d_inode->i_op->readlink(dentry, (char __user *)buf, len);
 	set_fs(old_fs);
 	if (rc < 0)
-		goto out_free;
+		buf = ERR_PTR(rc);
 	else
 		buf[rc] = '\0';
-	rc = 0;
-	nd_set_link(nd, buf);
-	goto out;
-out_free:
-	kfree(buf);
 out:
-	return ERR_PTR(rc);
+	nd_set_link(nd, buf);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static void
 ecryptfs_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd, void *ptr)
 {
-	/* Free the char* */
-	kfree(nd_get_link(nd));
+	char *buf = nd_get_link(nd);
+	if (!IS_ERR(buf)) {
+		/* Free the char* */
+		kfree(buf);
+	}
 }
 
 /**
_

-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

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