- updated to 3.9.8

[packages/kernel.git] / ovl09-overlayfs-fix-possible-leak-in-ovl_new_inode.patch

From 4bda74a61de9494ec76a7d5bf6f491a8284680d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:44:58 +0800
Subject: [PATCH 09/13] overlayfs: fix possible leak in ovl_new_inode
Patch-mainline: not yet

After allocating a new inode, if the mode of inode is incorrect, we should
release it by iput().

Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
---
 fs/overlayfs/inode.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-3.6-rc7-master/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.6-rc7-master.orig/fs/overlayfs/inode.c	2012-09-28 13:36:53.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-3.6-rc7-master/fs/overlayfs/inode.c	2012-09-28 13:37:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -371,6 +371,7 @@ struct inode *ovl_new_inode(struct super
 
 	default:
 		WARN(1, "illegal file type: %i\n", mode);
+		iput(inode);
 		inode = NULL;
 	}