cgroup: fix possible memory leak
authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:33:18 +0000 (22:33 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:41:44 +0000 (09:41 -0700)
There's a leak if copy_from_user() returns failure.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/cgroup.c

index 657f8f8d93a5fa947e79d0b8567a9c5288f425d9..28debe4e148808f45752e4a9d1602fa8d3e09bd6 100644 (file)
@@ -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;