From: Pavel Emelyanov Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 22:34:07 +0000 (-0700) Subject: inotify: don't leak user struct on inotify release X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33.5~15 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bd2000ae380153185705f2e80f2c676c1a5337e6;p=karo-tx-linux.git inotify: don't leak user struct on inotify release commit b3b38d842fa367d862b83e7670af4e0fd6a80fc0 upstream. inotify_new_group() receives a get_uid-ed user_struct and saves the reference on group->inotify_data.user. The problem is that free_uid() is never called on it. Issue seem to be introduced by 63c882a0 (inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotify) after 2.6.30. Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c index 1afb0a10229f..e27960cd76ab 100644 --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_fsnotify.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include /* struct path */ #include /* kmem_* */ #include +#include #include "inotify.h" @@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ static void inotify_free_group_priv(struct fsnotify_group *group) idr_for_each(&group->inotify_data.idr, idr_callback, group); idr_remove_all(&group->inotify_data.idr); idr_destroy(&group->inotify_data.idr); + free_uid(group->inotify_data.user); } void inotify_free_event_priv(struct fsnotify_event_private_data *fsn_event_priv)