This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure
to the 2.6.36-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
inotify-stop-kernel-memory-leak-on-file-creation-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.36 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:18:37 -0500
Subject: inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure
From: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
commit a2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab upstream.
If inotify_init is unable to allocate a new file for the new inotify
group we leak the new group. This patch drops the reference on the
group on file allocation failure.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -751,6 +751,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(inotify_init1, int, flag
if (ret >= 0)
return ret;
+ fsnotify_put_group(group);
atomic_dec(&user->inotify_devs);
out_free_uid:
free_uid(user);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.36/inotify-stop-kernel-memory-leak-on-file-creation-failure.patch
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