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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)
commit70021a37f2f52c801babedb99d9d97b046757946
tree9de9f2c95163bf53b44413de542f5be528ff302ftree | snapshot
parente22e0cdda450b0a72b27f91931c8acb797dd5ab5commit | 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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