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inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure
authorEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:18:37 +0000 (18:18 -0500)
committerEric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tue, 7 Dec 2010 21:14:22 +0000 (16:14 -0500)
commita2ae4cc9a16e211c8a128ba10d22a85431f093ab
tree9de9f2c95163bf53b44413de542f5be528ff302ftree | snapshot
parent09e5f14e57c70f9d357862bb56e57026c51092a1commit | diff
inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure

If inotify_init is unable to allocate a new file for the new inotify
group we leak the new group.  This patch drops the reference on the
group on file allocation failure.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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