Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup()

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Al Viro - Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 09:28:57AM +0100]
| 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...
| 

ok, here is an update version. labels names could be not that good
choosen (check please).

		- Cyrill -
---

Index: linux-2.6.git/fs/namespace.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/fs/namespace.c	2008-07-21 11:34:37.000000000 +0400
+++ linux-2.6.git/fs/namespace.c	2008-07-21 12:40:12.000000000 +0400
@@ -112,9 +112,13 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char
 		int err;
 
 		err = mnt_alloc_id(mnt);
-		if (err) {
-			kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
-			return NULL;
+		if (err)
+			goto out_free_cache;
+
+		if (name) {
+			mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
+			if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
+				goto out_free_id;
 		}
 
 		atomic_set(&mnt->mnt_count, 1);
@@ -127,16 +131,14 @@ struct vfsmount *alloc_vfsmnt(const char
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave_list);
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&mnt->mnt_slave);
 		atomic_set(&mnt->__mnt_writers, 0);
-		if (name) {
-			int size = strlen(name) + 1;
-			char *newname = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
-			if (newname) {
-				memcpy(newname, name, size);
-				mnt->mnt_devname = newname;
-			}
-		}
 	}
 	return mnt;
+
+out_free_id:
+	mnt_free_id(mnt);
+out_free_cache:
+	kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 /*