3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Francesco Ruggeri <frugg...@aristanetworks.com> commit 6bf6104573482570f7103d3e5ddf9574db43a363 upstream. The unregister_sysctl_table() function hangs if all references to its ctl_table_header structure are not dropped. This can happen sometimes because of a leak in proc_sys_lookup(): proc_sys_lookup() gets a reference to the table via lookup_entry(), but it does not release it when a subsequent call to sysctl_follow_link() fails. This patch fixes this leak by making sure the reference is always dropped on return. See also commit 076c3eed2c31 ("sysctl: Rewrite proc_sys_lookup introducing find_entry and lookup_entry") which reorganized this code in 3.4. Tested in Linux 3.4.4. Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri <frugg...@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c +++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c @@ -462,9 +462,6 @@ static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(st err = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); inode = proc_sys_make_inode(dir->i_sb, h ? h : head, p); - if (h) - sysctl_head_finish(h); - if (!inode) goto out; @@ -473,6 +470,8 @@ static struct dentry *proc_sys_lookup(st d_add(dentry, inode); out: + if (h) + sysctl_head_finish(h); sysctl_head_finish(head); return err; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/