Re: [PATCH 2.6.23-rc1] eCryptfs: fix error handling in ecryptfs_init

[Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:06:19PM +0900, Ryusuke Konishi wrote:
> ecryptfs_init() exits without doing any cleanup jobs if
> ecryptfs_init_messaging() fails.  In that case, eCryptfs leaves
> sysfs entries, leaks memory, and causes an invalid page fault.
> This patch fixes the problem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>

Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>

> ---
>  fs/ecryptfs/main.c |   18 +++++++++++++-----
>  1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> index e557a67..a984972 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/main.c
> @@ -813,6 +813,15 @@ out:
>  	return rc;
>  }
> 
> +static void do_sysfs_unregistration(void)
> +{
> +	sysfs_remove_file(&ecryptfs_subsys.kobj,
> +			  &sysfs_attr_version.attr);
> +	sysfs_remove_file(&ecryptfs_subsys.kobj,
> +			  &sysfs_attr_version_str.attr);
> +	subsystem_unregister(&ecryptfs_subsys);
> +}
> +
>  static int __init ecryptfs_init(void)
>  {
>  	int rc;
> @@ -851,6 +860,9 @@ static int __init ecryptfs_init(void)
>  	if (rc) {
>  		ecryptfs_printk(KERN_ERR, "Failure occured while attempting to "
>  				"initialize the eCryptfs netlink socket\n");
> +		do_sysfs_unregistration();
> +		unregister_filesystem(&ecryptfs_fs_type);
> +		ecryptfs_free_kmem_caches();
>  	}
>  out:
>  	return rc;
> @@ -858,11 +870,7 @@ out:
> 
>  static void __exit ecryptfs_exit(void)
>  {
> -	sysfs_remove_file(&ecryptfs_subsys.kobj,
> -			  &sysfs_attr_version.attr);
> -	sysfs_remove_file(&ecryptfs_subsys.kobj,
> -			  &sysfs_attr_version_str.attr);
> -	subsystem_unregister(&ecryptfs_subsys);
> +	do_sysfs_unregistration();
>  	ecryptfs_release_messaging(ecryptfs_transport);
>  	unregister_filesystem(&ecryptfs_fs_type);
>  	ecryptfs_free_kmem_caches();
-
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