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Subject[PATCH 05/14] sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)
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From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

kmem_cache_free() with NULL is not allowed. But it may happen
if out of memory error is triggered in sysfs_new_dirent().
This patch fixes that error handling.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
fs/sysfs/dir.c | 13 +++++++------
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index aee966c..2e6775a 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -361,20 +361,20 @@ static struct dentry_operations sysfs_dentry_ops = {
struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(const char *name, umode_t mode, int type)
{
char *dup_name = NULL;
- struct sysfs_dirent *sd = NULL;
+ struct sysfs_dirent *sd;

if (type & SYSFS_COPY_NAME) {
name = dup_name = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!name)
- goto err_out;
+ return NULL;
}

sd = kmem_cache_zalloc(sysfs_dir_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!sd)
- goto err_out;
+ goto err_out1;

if (sysfs_alloc_ino(&sd->s_ino))
- goto err_out;
+ goto err_out2;

atomic_set(&sd->s_count, 1);
atomic_set(&sd->s_active, 0);
@@ -386,9 +386,10 @@ struct sysfs_dirent *sysfs_new_dirent(const char *name, umode_t mode, int type)

return sd;

- err_out:
- kfree(dup_name);
+ err_out2:
kmem_cache_free(sysfs_dir_cachep, sd);
+ err_out1:
+ kfree(dup_name);
return NULL;
}

--
1.5.2.2
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