[dm-devel] Re: 2.6.24.2: 4KSTACKS + pcdrw + dm + mount -> stack overflow: ide-cd related? dm-related?

Jiri Kosina jkosina at suse.cz
Tue Feb 26 11:37:17 UTC 2008


On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > +	name = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	fname = kmalloc(sizeof(char) * UDF_NAME_LEN, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +
> > +	if (!name || !fname) {
> > +		*err = -ENOMEM;
> > +		return NULL;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	if (dentry) {
> >  		if (!dentry->d_name.len) {
> >  			*err = -EINVAL;
> this bit is missing i think:
> 	if (name)
> 		kfree(name);
> 	if (fname)
> 		kfree(fname);

Ergh, of course, stupid me, sorry, it should be freed on all exit paths. I 
am not sending updated patch, as Jan is probably working on complete 
removal of one of those fields ... ?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina




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