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cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure path

If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the
failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time.

I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Li Zefan 16 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 3 2
      kernel/cgroup.c

+ 3 - 2
kernel/cgroup.c

@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 		if (ret == -EBUSY) {
 			mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
 			mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-			goto drop_new_super;
+			goto free_cg_links;
 		}
 
 		/* EBUSY should be the only error here */
@@ -1073,10 +1073,11 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 
 	return simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb);
 
+ free_cg_links:
+	free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
  drop_new_super:
 	up_write(&sb->s_umount);
 	deactivate_super(sb);
-	free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
 	return ret;
 }