inotify: stop kernel memory leak on file creation failure

If inotify_init is unable to allocate a new file for the new inotify
group we leak the new group.  This patch drops the reference on the
group on file allocation failure.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
index 444c305..4cd5d5d 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c
@@ -752,6 +752,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE1(inotify_init1, int, flags)
        if (ret >= 0)
                return ret;
 
+       fsnotify_put_group(group);
        atomic_dec(&user->inotify_devs);
 out_free_uid:
        free_uid(user);