linux-kernel - [PATCH] sysctl: Call sysctl_head

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Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:17:07 +0100
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: Call sysctl_head_finish on error

From: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@...radead.org>

This error path returned directly instead of calling sysctl_head_finish().

Fixes: ef9d965bc8b6 ("sysctl: reject gigantic reads/write to sysctl files")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@...radead.org>
---
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
index 42c5128c7d1c..c02f94b52892 100644
--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -566,8 +566,9 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *ubuf,
 		goto out;
 
 	/* don't even try if the size is too large */
+	error = -ENOMEM;
 	if (count > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		goto out;
 
 	if (write) {
 		kbuf = memdup_user_nul(ubuf, count);
@@ -576,7 +577,6 @@ static ssize_t proc_sys_call_handler(struct file *filp, void __user *ubuf,
 			goto out;
 		}
 	} else {
-		error = -ENOMEM;
 		kbuf = kzalloc(count, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!kbuf)
 			goto out;
-- 
2.27.0