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kernel/user.c: fix a memory leak when freeing up non-init usernamespaces users 

We were returning early in the sysfs directory cleanup function if the
user belonged to a non init usernamespace.  Due to this a lot of the
cleanup was not done and we were left with a leak.  Fix the leak.

Reported-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Dhaval Giani 2009-03-10 12:55:56 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d58ab5cf09
commit be50b8342d
1 changed files with 7 additions and 7 deletions
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@ -286,14 +286,12 @@ int __init uids_sysfs_init(void)
/* work function to remove sysfs directory for a user and free up
* corresponding structures.
*/
static void remove_user_sysfs_dir(struct work_struct *w)
static void cleanup_user_struct(struct work_struct *w)
{
struct user_struct *up = container_of(w, struct user_struct, work);
unsigned long flags;
int remove_user = 0;
if (up->user_ns != &init_user_ns)
return;
/* Make uid_hash_remove() + sysfs_remove_file() + kobject_del()
* atomic.
*/
@ -312,9 +310,11 @@ static void remove_user_sysfs_dir(struct work_struct *w)
if (!remove_user)
goto done;
kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&up->kobj);
kobject_put(&up->kobj);
if (up->user_ns == &init_user_ns) {
kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
kobject_del(&up->kobj);
kobject_put(&up->kobj);
}
sched_destroy_user(up);
key_put(up->uid_keyring);
@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static void free_user(struct user_struct *up, unsigned long flags)
atomic_inc(&up->__count);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
INIT_WORK(&up->work, remove_user_sysfs_dir);
INIT_WORK(&up->work, cleanup_user_struct);
schedule_work(&up->work);
}