The commit
commit 5cb350baf580017da38199625b7365b1763d7180
Author: Dhaval Giani <[email protected]>
Date: Mon Oct 15 17:00:14 2007 +0200
sched: group scheduling, sysfs tunables
introduced the uids_mutex and the helpers to lock/unlock it.
Unfortunately, the error paths of alloc_uid() were not patched
to unlock it.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
---
diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index 56327ee..3549c4b 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -343,8 +343,11 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
struct user_struct *new;
new = kmem_cache_alloc(uid_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!new)
+ if (!new) {
+ uids_mutex_unlock();
return NULL;
+ }
+
new->uid = uid;
atomic_set(&new->__count, 1);
atomic_set(&new->processes, 0);
@@ -361,6 +364,7 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
if (alloc_uid_keyring(new, current) < 0) {
kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);
+ uids_mutex_unlock();
return NULL;
}
@@ -368,6 +372,7 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
key_put(new->uid_keyring);
key_put(new->session_keyring);
kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);
+ uids_mutex_unlock();
return NULL;
}
--
1.5.3.4
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