From: Sergey Vlasov If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain, __set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference acquired by lookup_exec_domain(). This patch was already included in Linus' tree. Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov Cc: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/exec_domain.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- linux-2.6.16.1.orig/kernel/exec_domain.c +++ linux-2.6.16.1/kernel/exec_domain.c @@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ __set_personality(u_long personality) ep = lookup_exec_domain(personality); if (ep == current_thread_info()->exec_domain) { current->personality = personality; + module_put(ep->module); return 0; } --