* [PATCH] fix task_struct leak in ptrace
@ 2005-11-11 8:28 Christoph Hellwig
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2005-11-11 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: akpm; +Cc: linux-kernel
When ptrace_attach fails we need to drop the task_struct reference.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Index: linux-2.6/kernel/ptrace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/ptrace.c 2005-11-11 00:10:29.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6/kernel/ptrace.c 2005-11-11 00:11:21.000000000 +0100
@@ -485,7 +485,7 @@
if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH) {
ret = ptrace_attach(child);
- goto out;
+ goto out_put_task_struct;
}
ret = ptrace_check_attach(child, request == PTRACE_KILL);
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