cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure path
If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the
failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time.
I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index a341550..2606d0f 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@
if (ret == -EBUSY) {
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
- goto drop_new_super;
+ goto free_cg_links;
}
/* EBUSY should be the only error here */
@@ -1073,10 +1073,11 @@
return simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb);
+ free_cg_links:
+ free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
drop_new_super:
up_write(&sb->s_umount);
deactivate_super(sb);
- free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
return ret;
}
