linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] UDF: Close small mem leak in udf_find

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Date:	Thu, 6 Jan 2011 17:54:12 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Ben Fennema <bfennema@...con.csc.calpoly.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] UDF: Close small mem leak in udf_find_entry()

  Hi,

On Sun 12-12-10 23:18:15, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> There's a small memory leak in fs/udf/namei.c::udf_find_entry().
> 
> We dynamically allocate memory for 'fname' with kmalloc() and in most 
> situations we free it before we leave the function, but there is one 
> situation where we do not (but should). This patch closes the leak by 
> jumping to the 'out_ok' label which does the correct cleanup rather than 
> doing half the cleanup and returning directly.
   Thanks. Merged.

								Honza
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>
> ---
>  namei.c |    6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
>  compile tested only
> 
> diff --git a/fs/udf/namei.c b/fs/udf/namei.c
> index 6d8dc02..899ef91 100644
> --- a/fs/udf/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/udf/namei.c
> @@ -228,10 +228,8 @@ static struct fileIdentDesc *udf_find_entry(struct inode *dir,
>  		}
>  
>  		if ((cfi->fileCharacteristics & FID_FILE_CHAR_PARENT) &&
> -		    isdotdot) {
> -			brelse(epos.bh);
> -			return fi;
> -		}
> +		    isdotdot)
> +			goto out_ok;
>  
>  		if (!lfi)
>  			continue;
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>            http://www.chaosbits.net/
> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
> Plain text mails only, please.
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR
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