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authorOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>2013-07-03 22:08:16 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 23:08:02 (GMT)
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coredump: format_corename() can leak cn->corename
do_coredump() assumes that format_corename() can only fail if expand_corename() fails and frees cn->corename. This is not true, for example cn_print_exe_file() can fail and in this case nobody frees cn->corename. Change do_coredump() to always do kfree(cn->corename) after it calls format_corename() (NULL is fine), change expand_corename() to do nothing if kmalloc() fails. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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