[PATCH 1/1] jffs2: leaking jffs2_summary in function jffs2_scan_medium

Christian Engelmayer christian.engelmayer at frequentis.com
Sat Jun 13 17:06:29 EDT 2009


From: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer at frequentis.com>

In case of an error returned by file_dirty() 's' is not freed as the cleanup
path is skipped.

Signed-off-by: Christian Engelmayer <christian.engelmayer at frequentis.com>
--
Reported by Coverity.

--- linux-2.6.29.4/fs/jffs2/scan.c.orig	2009-06-13 22:49:07.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.29.4/fs/jffs2/scan.c	2009-06-13 22:29:06.000000000 +0200
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_in
 				if (c->nextblock) {
 					ret = file_dirty(c, c->nextblock);
 					if (ret)
-						return ret;
+						goto out;
 					/* deleting summary information of the old nextblock */
 					jffs2_sum_reset_collected(c->summary);
 				}
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ int jffs2_scan_medium(struct jffs2_sb_in
 			} else {
 				ret = file_dirty(c, jeb);
 				if (ret)
-					return ret;
+					goto out;
 			}
 			break;
 



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