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| author | Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> | 2010-01-25 15:00:50 +0100 |
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| committer | Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> | 2010-01-25 15:00:50 +0100 |
| commit | c453615f77aa51593c1c9c9031b4278797d3fd19 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d6c05c9487b311d4f276d4c4bdf42d4e06fa445 /drivers | |
| parent | 5542482b9c61c2588f1178f315310a794988051a (diff) | |
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hwmon: (fschmd) Fix a memleak on multiple opens of /dev/watchdog
When /dev/watchdog gets opened a second time we return -EBUSY, but
we already have got a kref then, so we end up leaking our data struct.
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c b/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c index bd0fc67e804b..fa0728232e71 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c @@ -768,6 +768,7 @@ leave: static int watchdog_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) { struct fschmd_data *pos, *data = NULL; + int watchdog_is_open; /* We get called from drivers/char/misc.c with misc_mtx hold, and we call misc_register() from fschmd_probe() with watchdog_data_mutex @@ -782,10 +783,12 @@ static int watchdog_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) } } /* Note we can never not have found data, so we don't check for this */ - kref_get(&data->kref); + watchdog_is_open = test_and_set_bit(0, &data->watchdog_is_open); + if (!watchdog_is_open) + kref_get(&data->kref); mutex_unlock(&watchdog_data_mutex); - if (test_and_set_bit(0, &data->watchdog_is_open)) + if (watchdog_is_open) return -EBUSY; /* Start the watchdog */ |