[Patch 2/3] elf: clean up fill_note_info()

Amerigo Wang
2009-07-01T05:07:55Z

cleanups

Introduce a helper function elf_note_info_init() to help
fill_note_info() to do initializations, also fix the potential
memory leaks.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

---
Index: linux-2.6/fs/binfmt_elf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ linux-2.6/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1714,42 +1714,54 @@ struct elf_note_info {
int numnote;
};

-static int fill_note_info(struct elfhdr *elf, int phdrs,
- struct elf_note_info *info,
- long signr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+static int elf_note_info_init(struct elf_note_info *info)
{
-#define NUM_NOTES 6
- struct list_head *t;
-
- info->notes = NULL;
- info->prstatus = NULL;
- info->psinfo = NULL;
- info->fpu = NULL;
-#ifdef ELF_CORE_COPY_XFPREGS
- info->xfpu = NULL;
-#endif
+ memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->thread_list);

+#define NUM_NOTES 6
info->notes = kmalloc(NUM_NOTES * sizeof(struct memelfnote),
GFP_KERNEL);
+#undef NUM_NOTES
if (!info->notes)
return 0;
info->psinfo = kmalloc(sizeof(*info->psinfo), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!info->psinfo)
- return 0;
+ goto notes_free;
info->prstatus = kmalloc(sizeof(*info->prstatus), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!info->prstatus)
- return 0;
+ goto psinfo_free;
info->fpu = kmalloc(sizeof(*info->fpu), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!info->fpu)
- return 0;
+ goto prstatus_free;
#ifdef ELF_CORE_COPY_XFPREGS
info->xfpu = kmalloc(sizeof(*info->xfpu), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!info->xfpu)
- return 0;
+ goto fpu_free;
+#endif
+ return 1;
+#ifdef ELF_CORE_COPY_XFPREGS
+ fpu_free:
+ kfree(info->fpu);
#endif
+ prstatus_free:
+ kfree(info->prstatus);
+ psinfo_free:
+ kfree(info->psinfo);
+ notes_free:
+ kfree(info->notes);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static int fill_note_info(struct elfhdr *elf, int phdrs,
+ struct elf_note_info *info,
+ long signr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+ struct list_head *t;
+
+ if (!elf_note_info_init(info))
+ return 0;

- info->thread_status_size = 0;
if (signr) {
struct core_thread *ct;
struct elf_thread_status *ets;
@@ -1809,8 +1821,6 @@ static int fill_note_info(struct elfhdr
#endif

return 1;
-
-#undef NUM_NOTES
}

static size_t get_note_info_size(struct elf_note_info *info)