From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 005 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: fix memory leak on kmalloc failure in savemem
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:44:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1070212234426.29285@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20070213103941.28958.patches@notabene
From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@snoopy.citi.umich.edu>
The wrong pointer is being kfree'd in savemem() when defer_free
returns with an error.
Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
### Diffstat output
./fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c | 8 +++-----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff .prev/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c ./fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c
--- .prev/fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c 2007-02-13 10:23:49.000000000 +1100
+++ ./fs/nfsd/nfs4xdr.c 2007-02-13 10:36:40.000000000 +1100
@@ -199,18 +199,16 @@ defer_free(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *ar
static char *savemem(struct nfsd4_compoundargs *argp, __be32 *p, int nbytes)
{
- void *new = NULL;
if (p == argp->tmp) {
- new = kmalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!new) return NULL;
- p = new;
+ p = kmalloc(nbytes, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!p) return NULL;
memcpy(p, argp->tmp, nbytes);
} else {
BUG_ON(p != argp->tmpp);
argp->tmpp = NULL;
}
if (defer_free(argp, kfree, p)) {
- kfree(new);
+ kfree(p);
return NULL;
} else
return (char *)p;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-12 23:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-12 23:43 [PATCH 000 of 9] knfsd: NFSv4 ACL improvements and a couple of bug fixes NeilBrown
2007-02-12 23:44 ` [PATCH 001 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: fix non-terminated string NeilBrown
2007-02-14 13:00 ` [NFS] " Ming Zhang
2007-02-14 17:55 ` Chuck Lever
2007-02-14 18:04 ` Ming Zhang
2007-02-12 23:44 ` [PATCH 002 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: relax checking of ACL inheritance bits NeilBrown
2007-02-12 23:44 ` [PATCH 003 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: simplify nfsv4->posix translation NeilBrown
2007-02-12 23:44 ` [PATCH 004 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: represent nfsv4 acl with array instead of linked list NeilBrown
2007-02-12 23:44 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2007-02-12 23:44 ` [PATCH 006 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: fix error return on unsupported acl NeilBrown
2007-02-12 23:44 ` [PATCH 007 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: acls: don't return explicit mask NeilBrown
2007-02-12 23:45 ` [PATCH 008 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: acls: avoid unnecessary denies NeilBrown
2007-02-12 23:45 ` [PATCH 009 of 9] knfsd: nfsd4: fix handling of directories without default ACLs NeilBrown
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