Ocfs2 devel - Jan 2010 - [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix refcnt leak on ocfs2_fast_follow_link() error path

If ->follow_link handler return the error, it should decrement
nd->path refcnt. But, ocfs2_fast_follow_link() doesn't decrement.

This patch fix it by using usual nd_set_link() style error handling,
instead of playing with nd->path.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp>
---

 fs/ocfs2/symlink.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff -puN fs/ocfs2/symlink.c~namei-ocfs2-follow_link-fix fs/ocfs2/symlink.c
--- linux-2.6/fs/ocfs2/symlink.c~namei-ocfs2-follow_link-fix	2010-01-12
00:15:14.000000000 +0900
+++ linux-2.6-hirofumi/fs/ocfs2/symlink.c	2010-01-12 00:15:14.000000000 +0900
@@ -137,20 +137,20 @@ static void *ocfs2_fast_follow_link(stru
 	}
 
 	memcpy(link, target, len);
-	nd_set_link(nd, link);
 
 bail:
+	nd_set_link(nd, status ? ERR_PTR(status) : link);
 	brelse(bh);
 
 	mlog_exit(status);
-	return status ? ERR_PTR(status) : link;
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static void ocfs2_fast_put_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct nameidata *nd,
void *cookie)
 {
-	char *link = cookie;
-
-	kfree(link);
+	char *link = nd_get_link(nd);
+	if (!IS_ERR(link))
+		kfree(link);
 }
 
 const struct inode_operations ocfs2_symlink_inode_operations = {
_

-- 
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp>

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:37:45AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi
wrote:
> 
> If ->follow_link handler return the error, it should decrement
> nd->path refcnt. But, ocfs2_fast_follow_link() doesn't decrement.
> 
> This patch fix it by using usual nd_set_link() style error handling,
> instead of playing with nd->path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi at mail.parknet.co.jp>
This patch is now in the fixes branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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Joel Becker
Principal Software Developer
Oracle
E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com
Phone: (650) 506-8127