linux-kernel - [PATCH] fs: fix dentry leak in simple_fill

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Message-ID: <20111101121233.15505.87415.stgit@zurg>
Date:	Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:12:33 +0300
From:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
To:	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs: fix dentry leak in simple_fill_super()

put dentry if inode allocation failed, d_genocide() cannot release it

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
---
 fs/libfs.c |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index c18e9a1..a2c0029 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -510,8 +510,10 @@ int simple_fill_super(struct super_block *s, unsigned long magic,
 		if (!dentry)
 			goto out;
 		inode = new_inode(s);
-		if (!inode)
+		if (!inode) {
+			dput(dentry);
 			goto out;
+		}
 		inode->i_mode = S_IFREG | files->mode;
 		inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
 		inode->i_fop = files->ops;

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