From 5b4cdd9c5676559b8a7c944ac5269b914b8c0bb8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Torvalds Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:59:48 -0700 Subject: Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open() If the clk ops.open() function returns an error, we don't release the pccontext we allocated for this clock. Re-organize the code slightly to make it all more obvious. Reported-by: Rohit Keshri Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov Fixes: 60c6946675fc ("posix-clock: introduce posix_clock_context concept") Cc: Jakub Kicinski Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 16 +++++++++------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c index 9de66bbbb3d155..4782edcbe7b9b4 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c @@ -129,15 +129,17 @@ static int posix_clock_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *fp) goto out; } pccontext->clk = clk; - fp->private_data = pccontext; - if (clk->ops.open) + if (clk->ops.open) { err = clk->ops.open(pccontext, fp->f_mode); - else - err = 0; - - if (!err) { - get_device(clk->dev); + if (err) { + kfree(pccontext); + goto out; + } } + + fp->private_data = pccontext; + get_device(clk->dev); + err = 0; out: up_read(&clk->rwsem); return err; -- cgit 1.2.3-korg