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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup()
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:28:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721082857.GB28946@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721080427.GC6662@lenovo>

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04:27PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>  		err = mnt_alloc_id(mnt);
> -		if (err) {
> -			kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
> -			return NULL;
> +		if (err)
> +			goto err;

Ugh...  Labels are in a separate namespace, but really...

> +		if (name) {
> +			mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
> +			if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
> +				goto err;

> +err:
> +	kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
> +	return NULL;

Leak; note the mnt_alloc_id() above.  Either do that kstrdup() first and
kfree the result on mnt_alloc_id() failure or do mnt_free_id() on kstrdup()
one...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-19 10:16 [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup() Li Zefan
2008-07-19 11:30 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-19 13:13 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-19 13:19   ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-21  5:27     ` Al Viro
2008-07-21  6:29       ` Li Zefan
2008-07-21  7:03         ` Al Viro
2008-07-21  7:09           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-21  8:04           ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-21  8:28             ` Li Zefan
2008-07-21  8:44               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-21  8:59                 ` Li Zefan
2008-07-21  9:06                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-07-21 10:05                     ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-21 10:10                       ` Li Zefan
2008-07-21 10:17                         ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-21  9:12                   ` Al Viro
2008-07-21  8:28             ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-07-21  8:35               ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-07-21  8:42               ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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