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authorKrishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>2008-10-22 14:48:36 +0530
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>2008-10-22 14:00:45 -0400
commit6c6a426fdcb374b7641d7cf9eea88410828b9d9a (patch)
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nfsd: Fix memory leak in nfsd_getxattr
Fix a memory leak in nfsd_getxattr. nfsd_getxattr should free up memory that it allocated if vfs_getxattr fails. Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/nfsd')
-rw-r--r--fs/nfsd/vfs.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index aa1d0d6489a1..9609eb51d727 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -410,6 +410,7 @@ out_nfserr:
static ssize_t nfsd_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *key, void **buf)
{
ssize_t buflen;
+ ssize_t ret;
buflen = vfs_getxattr(dentry, key, NULL, 0);
if (buflen <= 0)
@@ -419,7 +420,10 @@ static ssize_t nfsd_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *key, void **buf)
if (!*buf)
return -ENOMEM;
- return vfs_getxattr(dentry, key, *buf, buflen);
+ ret = vfs_getxattr(dentry, key, *buf, buflen);
+ if (ret < 0)
+ kfree(*buf);
+ return ret;
}
#endif