[PATCH 3/4] spufs: fix a leak in spufs_create_context()
Al Viro
viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk
Thu Mar 13 15:29:32 AEDT 2025
Leak fixes back in 2008 missed one case - if we are trying to set affinity
and spufs_mkdir() fails, we need to drop the reference to neighbor.
Fixes: 58119068cb27 "[POWERPC] spufs: Fix memory leak on SPU affinity"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
index c566e7997f2c..9f9e4b871627 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c
@@ -460,8 +460,11 @@ spufs_create_context(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry,
}
ret = spufs_mkdir(inode, dentry, flags, mode & 0777);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
+ if (neighbor)
+ put_spu_context(neighbor);
goto out_aff_unlock;
+ }
if (affinity) {
spufs_set_affinity(flags, SPUFS_I(d_inode(dentry))->i_ctx,
--
2.39.5
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