Re: [PATCH] coredump: plug a memory leak situation on dump_seek()

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Mar 08 2010 - 22:09:09 EST


> After having started writing the coredump, if filesystem reports an error
> anytime while writing part of the core file, we would leak a memory page
> when bailing out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrà Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@xxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good.
Thanks, Andre!

- kosaki

> ---
> include/linux/coredump.h | 10 +++++++---
> 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/coredump.h b/include/linux/coredump.h
> index b3c91d7..8ba66a9 100644
> --- a/include/linux/coredump.h
> +++ b/include/linux/coredump.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ static inline int dump_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int nr)
>
> static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off)
> {
> + int ret = 1;
> +
> if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) {
> if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, SEEK_CUR) < 0)
> return 0;
> @@ -29,13 +31,15 @@ static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off)
>
> if (n > PAGE_SIZE)
> n = PAGE_SIZE;
> - if (!dump_write(file, buf, n))
> - return 0;
> + if (!dump_write(file, buf, n)) {
> + ret = 0;
> + break;
> + }
> off -= n;
> }
> free_page((unsigned long)buf);
> }
> - return 1;
> + return ret;
> }
>
> #endif /* _LINUX_COREDUMP_H */
> --
> 1.7.0.1.164.gbe2f
>



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