cgroup: fix possible memory leak
There's a leak if copy_from_user() returns failure.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 657f8f8..28debe4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1424,14 +1424,17 @@
if (buffer == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
}
- if (nbytes && copy_from_user(buffer, userbuf, nbytes))
- return -EFAULT;
+ if (nbytes && copy_from_user(buffer, userbuf, nbytes)) {
+ retval = -EFAULT;
+ goto out;
+ }
buffer[nbytes] = 0; /* nul-terminate */
strstrip(buffer);
retval = cft->write_string(cgrp, cft, buffer);
if (!retval)
retval = nbytes;
+out:
if (buffer != local_buffer)
kfree(buffer);
return retval;