When ptrace_attach fails we need to drop the task_struct reference. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, long addr, long data)
if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH) {
ret = ptrace_attach(child);
- goto out;
+ goto out_put_task_struct;
}
ret = ptrace_check_attach(child, request == PTRACE_KILL);