linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/2] Don't forget to unlock uids

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:49:33 +0300
From:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	devel@...nvz.org, Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Don't forget to unlock uids_mutex on error paths

The commit

commit 5cb350baf580017da38199625b7365b1763d7180
Author: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:   Mon Oct 15 17:00:14 2007 +0200

    sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables

introduced the uids_mutex and the helpers to lock/unlock it.
Unfortunately, the error paths of alloc_uid() were not patched
to unlock it.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

---

diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 56327ee..3549c4b 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -343,8 +343,11 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
 		struct user_struct *new;
 
 		new = kmem_cache_alloc(uid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
-		if (!new)
+		if (!new) {
+			uids_mutex_unlock();
 			return NULL;
+		}
+
 		new->uid = uid;
 		atomic_set(&new->__count, 1);
 		atomic_set(&new->processes, 0);
@@ -361,6 +364,7 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
 
 		if (alloc_uid_keyring(new, current) < 0) {
 			kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);
+			uids_mutex_unlock();
 			return NULL;
 		}
 
@@ -368,6 +372,7 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
 			key_put(new->uid_keyring);
 			key_put(new->session_keyring);
 			kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);
+			uids_mutex_unlock();
 			return NULL;
 		}
 
-- 
1.5.3.4

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