Re: [Patch] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a wrong free

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Sun May 04 2008 - 06:41:24 EST


WANG Cong wrote:
Hi, Pekka!

Thanks for your comments. Yes, it seems that fill_note_info() is ugly.
:-) How about the below one?

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

---
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index f6d5a9d..357b503 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file, un
/* alloc memory for large data structures: too large to be on stack */
elf = kmalloc(sizeof(*elf), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!elf)
- goto cleanup;
+ goto ret;

segs = current->mm->map_count;
#ifdef ELF_CORE_EXTRA_PHDRS
@@ -2034,8 +2034,9 @@ end_coredump:
set_fs(fs);
cleanup:
- kfree(elf);
free_note_info(&info);
+ kfree(elf);
+ret:
return has_dumped;

Looks good although 'ret' is usually reserved for the variable that contains the return value so you might want to consider using the more idiomatic 'out' as the label name.

Pekka
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