From: Sergey Vlasov <[email protected]>
If the change of personality does not lead to change of exec domain,
__set_personality() returned without releasing the module reference
acquired by lookup_exec_domain().
This patch was already included in Linus' tree.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Vlasov <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/exec_domain.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- linux-2.6.16.1.orig/kernel/exec_domain.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.1/kernel/exec_domain.c
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ __set_personality(u_long personality)
ep = lookup_exec_domain(personality);
if (ep == current_thread_info()->exec_domain) {
current->personality = personality;
+ module_put(ep->module);
return 0;
}
--
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