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authorLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>2008-07-29 22:33:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-30 09:41:44 -0700
commit5a3eb9f6b7c598529f832b8baa6458ab1cbab2c6 (patch)
tree16d1d481e86fb222e4e18c0681c1e5a4710675fb /kernel
parent1d1958f05095a7e9ecbba86235122784a3d1b561 (diff)
cgroup: fix possible memory leak
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 657f8f8d93a..28debe4e148 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;