[PATCH] memory leak in dentry_open()

[Peter Staubach]

Hi.

There is a memory leak possible in dentry_open().  If get_empty_filp()
fails, then the references to dentry and mnt need to be released.
The attached patch adds the calls to dput() and mntput() to release
these two references.

   Thanx...

      ps

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- linux-2.6.14/fs/open.c.org
+++ linux-2.6.14/fs/open.c
@@ -894,8 +894,11 @@ struct file *dentry_open(struct dentry *
 
 	error = -ENFILE;
 	f = get_empty_filp();
-	if (f == NULL)
+	if (f == NULL) {
+		dput(dentry);
+		mntput(mnt);
 		return ERR_PTR(error);
+	}
 
 	return __dentry_open(dentry, mnt, flags, f, NULL);
 }