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coredump: plug a memory leak situation on dump_seek()

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After having started writing the coredump, if filesystem reports an error
anytime while writing part of the core file, we would leak a memory page
when bailing out.

Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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André Goddard Rosa 2010-03-10 15:21:22 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5cacdb4add
commit 6e3e37a5a7
1 changed files with 7 additions and 3 deletions
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include/linux/coredump.h
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@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ static inline int dump_write(struct file *file, const void *addr, int nr)
static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off) static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off)
{ {
int ret = 1;
if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) { if (file->f_op->llseek && file->f_op->llseek != no_llseek) {
if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, SEEK_CUR) < 0) if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, SEEK_CUR) < 0)
return 0; return 0;
@ -29,13 +31,15 @@ static inline int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off)
if (n > PAGE_SIZE) if (n > PAGE_SIZE)
n = PAGE_SIZE; n = PAGE_SIZE;
if (!dump_write(file, buf, n)) if (!dump_write(file, buf, n)) {
return 0; ret = 0;
break;
}
off -= n; off -= n;
} }
free_page((unsigned long)buf); free_page((unsigned long)buf);
} }
return 1; return ret;
} }
#endif /* _LINUX_COREDUMP_H */ #endif /* _LINUX_COREDUMP_H */