From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:55:25 +0000 (-0800) Subject: exit: pidns: alloc_pid() leaks pid_namespace if child_reaper is exiting X-Git-Url: http://git.mmlx.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=12279351a42d51638a21ede8a3f6c62aea26491e;p=linux-edison.git exit: pidns: alloc_pid() leaks pid_namespace if child_reaper is exiting commit 24c037ebf5723d4d9ab0996433cee4f96c292a4d upstream. alloc_pid() does get_pid_ns() beforehand but forgets to put_pid_ns() if it fails because disable_pid_allocation() was called by the exiting child_reaper. We could simply move get_pid_ns() down to successful return, but this fix tries to be as trivial as possible. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Cc: Serge Hallyn Cc: Sterling Alexander Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/kernel/pid.c b/kernel/pid.c index 0eb6d8e8b1d..3cdba517360 100644 --- a/kernel/pid.c +++ b/kernel/pid.c @@ -335,6 +335,8 @@ out: out_unlock: spin_unlock_irq(&pidmap_lock); + put_pid_ns(ns); + out_free: while (++i <= ns->level) free_pidmap(pid->numbers + i);