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From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Eric Youngdale <ericy@cais.com>,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a wrong free
Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 22:30:11 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080504143011.GB3720@hack> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <481D9247.4010804@cs.helsinki.fi>

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 01:39:03PM +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Looks good although 'ret' is usually reserved for the variable that 
> contains the return value so you might want to consider using the more 
> idiomatic 'out' as the label name.
>

Thanks. Done.

---
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;
 }
 

      reply	other threads:[~2008-05-04 14:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-03 12:46 [Patch] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a wrong free WANG Cong
2008-05-03 13:26 ` Pekka J Enberg
2008-05-03 14:39   ` WANG Cong
2008-05-04 10:39     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-04 14:30       ` WANG Cong [this message]

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