Sysfs: fix possible memleak in sysfs_follow_link
There is the possiblity of a memory leak if a page is allocated and if
sysfs_getlink() fails in the sysfs_follow_link.
Signed-off-by: Armin Kuster <akuster@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
index a3ba217..1d897ad 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/symlink.c
@@ -192,8 +192,11 @@
{
int error = -ENOMEM;
unsigned long page = get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL);
- if (page)
+ if (page) {
error = sysfs_getlink(dentry, (char *) page);
+ if (error < 0)
+ free_page((unsigned long)page);
+ }
nd_set_link(nd, error ? ERR_PTR(error) : (char *)page);
return NULL;
}