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[PATCH] CRED: Fix creds refcounting in lookup_user_key()
From: David Howells <dhowells_at_nospam>Date: Tue Oct 14 2008 - 21:52:49 GMT
To: jmorris@namei.org
Make lookup_user_key() at all return points drop the reference to the current
creds that it took at the top of the function.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> --- security/keys/process_keys.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c index e40f61d..2d6076d 100644 --- a/security/keys/process_keys.c +++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c @@ -667,6 +667,7 @@ try_again: goto invalid_key; error: + put_cred(cred); return key_ref; invalid_key: -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html