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fanotify: do not leak user reference on allocation failure

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If fanotify_init is unable to allocate a new fsnotify group it will
return but will not drop its reference on the associated user struct.
Drop that reference on error.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Eric Paris 2010-11-23 23:48:26 -05:00
parent a2ae4cc9a1
commit 2637919893
1 changed files with 3 additions and 1 deletions
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fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
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@ -692,8 +692,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags)
/* fsnotify_alloc_group takes a ref. Dropped in fanotify_release */
group = fsnotify_alloc_group(&fanotify_fsnotify_ops);
if (IS_ERR(group))
if (IS_ERR(group)) {
free_uid(user);
return PTR_ERR(group);
}
group->fanotify_data.user = user;
atomic_inc(&user->fanotify_listeners);