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authorVincent Minet <v.minet@criteo.com>2020-05-08 00:14:22 +0200
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2020-05-08 19:06:55 -0700
commitdb803036ada7d61d096783726f9771b3fc540370 (patch)
tree538a193dd95f6afe20309e7af2182ec6fd7d6845 /kernel/rcu
parent14d8f7486a344ee64c37641c70b2d67013eb9de6 (diff)
umh: fix memory leak on execve failure
If a UMH process created by fork_usermode_blob() fails to execute, a pair of struct file allocated by umh_pipe_setup() will leak. Under normal conditions, the caller (like bpfilter) needs to manage the lifetime of the UMH and its two pipes. But when fork_usermode_blob() fails, the caller doesn't really have a way to know what needs to be done. It seems better to do the cleanup ourselves in this case. Fixes: 449325b52b7a ("umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper") Signed-off-by: Vincent Minet <v.minet@criteo.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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