linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Re: [RFC PATCH] namespaces: fix leak on fork() failure

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Message-Id: <20120501134214.f6b44f4a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 1 May 2012 13:42:14 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	Louis Rilling <louis.rilling@...labs.com>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]  Re: [RFC PATCH] namespaces: fix leak on fork() failure

On Tue, 01 May 2012 13:35:03 -0700
ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> 
> Andrew can you please pick up this patch?

Sure.  I assume it's fixing a post-3.4 regression?  No -stable backport
needed?

> This doesn't explain all of the vsftp weirdness people have been seeing
> but it does fix a real leak on fork failure that vsftp could most
> definitely have triggered.
> 
> Mike Galbraith <efault@....de> writes:

hm, Mike had some test code.  If that was put in
tools/testing/selftests/nsproxy, this leak wouldn't happen again!
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