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Subject[PATCH v2] procfs: Fix error handling of proc_register()
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	I don't see why this should print warnings instead of properly
unrolling allocations and returning an appropriate error. It's actually
leaking resources. WARN kept on EINVAL case but the leak is fixed there
as well.

to: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
to: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
---
fs/proc/generic.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/generic.c b/fs/proc/generic.c
index 317b726..89b20cc 100644
--- a/fs/proc/generic.c
+++ b/fs/proc/generic.c
@@ -304,6 +304,7 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp
dp->proc_iops = &proc_file_inode_operations;
} else {
WARN_ON(1);
+ proc_free_inum(dp->low_ino);
return -EINVAL;
}

@@ -311,9 +312,13 @@ static int proc_register(struct proc_dir_entry * dir, struct proc_dir_entry * dp

for (tmp = dir->subdir; tmp; tmp = tmp->next)
if (strcmp(tmp->name, dp->name) == 0) {
- WARN(1, "proc_dir_entry '%s/%s' already registered\n",
- dir->name, dp->name);
- break;
+ spin_unlock(&proc_subdir_lock);
+
+ if (S_ISDIR(dp->mode))
+ dir->nlink--;
+
+ proc_free_inum(dp->low_ino);
+ return -EEXIST;
}

dp->next = dir->subdir;
--
2.1.2


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