This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sunrpc/cache: fix module refcnt leak in a failure path
to the 2.6.32-longterm tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/longterm/longterm-queue-2.6.32.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
sunrpc-cache-fix-module-refcnt-leak-in-a-failure-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.32 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the 2.6.32 longterm
tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From a5990ea1254cd186b38744507aeec3136a0c1c95 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:08:10 -0800
Subject: sunrpc/cache: fix module refcnt leak in a failure path
From: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
commit a5990ea1254cd186b38744507aeec3136a0c1c95 upstream.
Don't forget to release the module refcnt if seq_open() returns failure.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <[email protected]>
Cc: maximilian attems <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/sunrpc/cache.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/net/sunrpc/cache.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/cache.c
@@ -1234,8 +1234,10 @@ static int content_open(struct inode *in
if (!cd || !try_module_get(cd->owner))
return -EACCES;
han = __seq_open_private(file, &cache_content_op, sizeof(*han));
- if (han == NULL)
+ if (han == NULL) {
+ module_put(cd->owner);
return -ENOMEM;
+ }
han->cd = cd;
return 0;
Patches currently in longterm-queue-2.6.32 which might be from
[email protected] are
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