From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: fix possible memory leak
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:20:56 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <488D2D08.2090903@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
There's a leak if copy_from_user() returns failure.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 657f8f8..28debe4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1424,14 +1424,17 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_write_string(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
if (buffer == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
}
- if (nbytes && copy_from_user(buffer, userbuf, nbytes))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (nbytes && copy_from_user(buffer, userbuf, nbytes)) {
+ retval = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ }
buffer[nbytes] = 0; /* nul-terminate */
strstrip(buffer);
retval = cft->write_string(cgrp, cft, buffer);
if (!retval)
retval = nbytes;
+out:
if (buffer != local_buffer)
kfree(buffer);
return retval;
--
1.5.4.rc3
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-28 2:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-28 2:20 Li Zefan [this message]
2008-07-30 8:16 ` [PATCH] cgroup: fix possible memory leak Paul Menage
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