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authorLeon Yu <chianglungyu@gmail.com>2014-05-01 03:31:28 +0000
committerBenjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>2014-05-01 08:37:43 -0400
commit754320d6e166d3a12cb4810a452bde00afbd4e9a (patch)
tree3b17b611fa318a189aa04b98abbeb2ec0062233d
parente02ba72aabfade4c9cd6e3263e9b57bf890ad25c (diff)
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aio: fix potential leak in aio_run_iocb().
iovec should be reclaimed whenever caller of rw_copy_check_uvector() returns, but it doesn't hold when failure happens right after aio_setup_vectored_rw(). Fix that in a such way to avoid hairy goto. Signed-off-by: Leon Yu <chianglungyu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
-rw-r--r--fs/aio.c6
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index 2adbb0398ab9..a0ed6c7d2cd2 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1327,10 +1327,8 @@ rw_common:
&iovec, compat)
: aio_setup_single_vector(req, rw, buf, &nr_segs,
iovec);
- if (ret)
- return ret;
-
- ret = rw_verify_area(rw, file, &req->ki_pos, req->ki_nbytes);
+ if (!ret)
+ ret = rw_verify_area(rw, file, &req->ki_pos, req->ki_nbytes);
if (ret < 0) {
if (iovec != &inline_vec)
kfree(iovec);