[PATCH] cifs: Fix a small memory leak in directory creation code.

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Sun Sep 16 2007 - 17:18:45 EST



There is a small memory leak in fs/cifs/inode.c::cifs_mkdir().
Storage for 'pInfo' is allocated with kzalloc(), but if the call
to CIFSPOSIXCreate(...) happens to return 0 and pInfo->Type == -1,
then we'll jump to the 'mkdir_get_info' label without freeing the
storage allocated for 'pInfo'.
This patch adds a kfree() call to free the storage just before
jumping to the label, thus getting rid of the leak.


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx>
---

inode.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6/fs/cifs/inode.c~ 2007-09-16 23:01:52.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6/fs/cifs/inode.c 2007-09-16 23:01:52.000000000 +0200
@@ -929,8 +929,10 @@ int cifs_mkdir(struct inode *inode, stru
d_drop(direntry);
} else {
int obj_type;
- if (pInfo->Type == -1) /* no return info - go query */
+ if (pInfo->Type == -1) { /* no return info - go query */
+ kfree(pInfo);
goto mkdir_get_info;
+ }
/*BB check (cifs_sb->mnt_cifs_flags & CIFS_MOUNT_SET_UID ) to see if need
to set uid/gid */
inc_nlink(inode);


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