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Subject[PATCH] ovl: Avoid some memory allocation
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Reorder code to avoid allocating and then freeing some memory in an error
handling path.

Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
---
fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
index 023bb0b03352..ba80ebb8a104 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
@@ -35,13 +35,13 @@ static int ovl_check_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, struct ovl_lookup_data *d,
return 0;
goto fail;
}
+ if (res == 0)
+ goto invalid;
+
buf = kzalloc(prelen + res + strlen(post) + 1, GFP_TEMPORARY);
if (!buf)
return -ENOMEM;

- if (res == 0)
- goto invalid;
-
res = vfs_getxattr(dentry, OVL_XATTR_REDIRECT, buf, res);
if (res < 0)
goto fail;
--
2.9.3
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