From: Li Zefan Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:33:18 +0000 (-0700) Subject: cgroup: fix possible memory leak X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc2~197 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5a3eb9f6b7c598529f832b8baa6458ab1cbab2c6;p=linux-2.6 cgroup: fix possible memory leak There's a leak if copy_from_user() returns failure. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Cedric Le Goater Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 657f8f8d93..28debe4e14 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;