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procfs: fix error handling of proc_register() 

proc_register() error paths are leaking inodes and directory refcounts.

Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Debabrata Banerjee 2014-12-10 15:45:04 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 710585d492
commit b208d54b75
1 changed files with 8 additions and 1 deletions
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fs/proc/generic.c
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@ -369,14 +369,21 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp
dp->proc_iops = &proc_file_inode_operations;
} else {
WARN_ON(1);
proc_free_inum(dp->low_ino);
return -EINVAL;
}
spin_lock(&proc_subdir_lock);
dp->parent = dir;
if (pde_subdir_insert(dir, dp) == false)
if (pde_subdir_insert(dir, dp) == false) {
WARN(1, "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",
dir->name, dp->name);
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
if (S_ISDIR(dp->mode))
dir->nlink--;
proc_free_inum(dp->low_ino);
return -EEXIST;
}
spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
return 0;