kernel/user.c: fix a memory leak when freeing up non-init usernamespaces users
We were returning early in the sysfs directory cleanup function if the
user belonged to a non init usernamespace. Due to this a lot of the
cleanup was not done and we were left with a leak. Fix the leak.
Reported-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 6a9b696..fbb300e 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -286,14 +286,12 @@
/* work function to remove sysfs directory for a user and free up
* corresponding structures.
*/
-static void remove_user_sysfs_dir(struct work_struct *w)
+static void cleanup_user_struct(struct work_struct *w)
{
struct user_struct *up = container_of(w, struct user_struct, work);
unsigned long flags;
int remove_user = 0;
- if (up->user_ns != &init_user_ns)
- return;
/* Make uid_hash_remove() + sysfs_remove_file() + kobject_del()
* atomic.
*/
@@ -312,9 +310,11 @@
if (!remove_user)
goto done;
- kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
- kobject_del(&up->kobj);
- kobject_put(&up->kobj);
+ if (up->user_ns == &init_user_ns) {
+ kobject_uevent(&up->kobj, KOBJ_REMOVE);
+ kobject_del(&up->kobj);
+ kobject_put(&up->kobj);
+ }
sched_destroy_user(up);
key_put(up->uid_keyring);
@@ -335,7 +335,7 @@
atomic_inc(&up->__count);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
- INIT_WORK(&up->work, remove_user_sysfs_dir);
+ INIT_WORK(&up->work, cleanup_user_struct);
schedule_work(&up->work);
}