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From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no, torvalds@transmeta.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [2.5] memleak in fs/nfs/inode.c::nfs_get_sb()
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 18:11:05 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030311181105.A3232@namesys.com> (raw)

Hello!

   There is trivial memleak on error exit path in nfs get_sb function.
   See the patch.
   Found with the help of smatch + enhanced unfree script.

Bye,
    Oleg

===== fs/nfs/inode.c 1.72 vs edited =====
--- 1.72/fs/nfs/inode.c	Thu Feb 13 15:57:46 2003
+++ edited/fs/nfs/inode.c	Tue Mar 11 18:03:07 2003
@@ -1231,6 +1231,7 @@
 
 	if (root->size > sizeof(root->data)) {
 		printk("nfs_get_sb: invalid root filehandle\n");
+		kfree(server);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
 	}
 	/* We now require that the mount process passes the remote address */

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