linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup()

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Date:	Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:28:57 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: use kstrdup()

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:04:27PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>  		err = mnt_alloc_id(mnt);
> -		if (err) {
> -			kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
> -			return NULL;
> +		if (err)
> +			goto err;

Ugh...  Labels are in a separate namespace, but really...

> +		if (name) {
> +			mnt->mnt_devname = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
> +			if (!mnt->mnt_devname)
> +				goto err;

> +err:
> +	kmem_cache_free(mnt_cache, mnt);
> +	return NULL;

Leak; note the mnt_alloc_id() above.  Either do that kstrdup() first and
kfree the result on mnt_alloc_id() failure or do mnt_free_id() on kstrdup()
one...
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