Re: sysfs: release mutex when kmalloc() failed in sysfs_open_file().

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:56:46 +0900 (JST) YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明  <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> wrote:

> diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
> index b502c71..1f64ce5 100644
> --- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
> +++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
> @@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
>  	if (!(set = inode->i_private)) {
>  		if (!(set = inode->i_private = kmalloc(sizeof(struct sysfs_buffer_collection), GFP_KERNEL))) {
> +			mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
>  			error = -ENOMEM;
>  			goto Done;
>  		} else {

All this code is totally different in Greg's development tree, so this
fix really is only applicable to 2.6.22.x.

I suppose we could apply this to -stable, but given GFP_KERNEL's present behaviour
for small allocations it's pretty theoretical.

Unless you've enabled fault-injection in the page allocator, or if you get
oom-killed in that allocation.  In which case your kernel is dead.

So hm, perhaps you'd best send this to stable@kernel.org.
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