From 005f18dfd0ed86c39716277b61dfb4bd2af91059 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:06:33 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] fix task_struct leak in ptrace When ptrace_attach fails we need to drop the task_struct reference. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c index b88d4186cd..17ee7e5a34 100644 --- a/kernel/ptrace.c +++ b/kernel/ptrace.c @@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, long addr, long data) if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH) { ret = ptrace_attach(child); - goto out; + goto out_put_task_struct; } ret = ptrace_check_attach(child, request == PTRACE_KILL); -- 2.39.5