linux-kernel - [PATCH] nfs: Fix nfs_parse_mount

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Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:39:34 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
Cc:	Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] nfs: Fix nfs_parse_mount_options() kfree() leak


* Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no> wrote:

> > So d508afb fixed all that needed fixing and there's nothing serious 
> > pending here. I've reverted all pending bits in tip:out-of-tree, so 
> > it's pure -git now. I rarely have to carry any NFS fixes in 
> > out-of-tree, this was an odd-one-out exception that fell through the 
> > cracks.
> > 
> > 	Ingo
> 
> OK. Could you resend the remaining leak fix, with the fixed up 
> changelog and attributions so I can pass it on to Linus?

Sure - find it below.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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>From 42497c08be18c388f696a692ca5f8c3ba48cb183 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2009 09:06:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] nfs: Fix nfs_parse_mount_options() kfree() leak

Fix a (small) memory leak in one of the error paths of
the NFS mount options parsing code.

Reported-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Reported-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
---
 fs/nfs/super.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/nfs/super.c b/fs/nfs/super.c
index a2c18ac..90be551 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/super.c
@@ -1253,6 +1253,7 @@ static int nfs_parse_mount_options(char *raw,
 			default:
 				dfprintk(MOUNT, "NFS:   unrecognized "
 						"transport protocol\n");
+				kfree(string);
 				return 0;
 			}
 			break;
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