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kmod: fix resource leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe()
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Fri, 8 Jan 2010 22:42:38 +0000 (14:42 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:34:04 +0000 (09:34 -0800)
commitd84780c46f0930c2f834f41f366d4dcf1997dae6
treecefe04f3420ae11d46c4badbd1d3b2993da156b7
parent7b9ac4dd246ea137e3109e2e90bb202cf616501d
kmod: fix resource leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe()

Fix resource (write-pipe file) leak in call_usermodehelper_pipe().

When call_usermodehelper_exec() fails, write-pipe file is opened and
call_usermodehelper_pipe() just returns an error.  Since it is hard for
caller to determine whether the error occured when opening the pipe or
executing the helper, the caller cannot close the pipe by themselves.

I've found this resoruce leak when testing coredump.  You can check how
the resource leaks as below;

$ echo "|nocommand" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern
$ ulimit -c unlimited
$ while [ 1 ]; do ./segv; done &> /dev/null &
$ cat /proc/meminfo (<- repeat it)

where segv.c is;
//-----
int main () {
        char *p = 0;
        *p = 1;
}
//-----

This patch closes write-pipe file if call_usermodehelper_exec() failed.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/kmod.c