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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
To: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, songmuchun@bytedance.com,
	longman@redhat.com, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, legion@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipc: mqueue: fix possible memory leak in init_mqueue_fs()
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 13:20:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v8ryz194.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220715062301.19311-1-hbh25y@gmail.com> (Hangyu Hua's message of "Fri, 15 Jul 2022 14:23:01 +0800")

Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@gmail.com> writes:

> commit db7cfc380900 ("ipc: Free mq_sysctls if ipc namespace creation
> failed")
>
> Here's a similar memory leak to the one fixed by the patch above.
> retire_mq_sysctls need to be called when init_mqueue_fs fails after
> setup_mq_sysctls.

Alex can you review this change?

> Fixes: dc55e35f9e81 ("ipc: Store mqueue sysctls in the ipc namespace")
> Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@gmail.com>
> ---
>  ipc/mqueue.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/ipc/mqueue.c b/ipc/mqueue.c
> index 12ad7860bb88..83370fef8879 100644
> --- a/ipc/mqueue.c
> +++ b/ipc/mqueue.c
> @@ -1746,6 +1746,7 @@ static int __init init_mqueue_fs(void)
>  	unregister_filesystem(&mqueue_fs_type);
>  out_sysctl:
>  	kmem_cache_destroy(mqueue_inode_cachep);
> +	retire_mq_sysctls(&init_ipc_ns);
>  	return error;
>  }

Thanks,
Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2022-07-15 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-15  6:23 Hangyu Hua
2022-07-15 18:20 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2022-07-19 22:21 ` Eric W. Biederman

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