[PATCH] fix task_struct leak in ptrace

005f18df · Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]> · 2005-11-13 16:06:33 -08:00

When ptrace_attach fails we need to drop the task_struct reference.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Commit: 005f18dfd0ed86c39716277b61dfb4bd2af91059
Parents: ab767201

Changes

1 files changed · +1 −1

File	Status	Add	Del	Content
kernel/ptrace.c	modified	+1	−1	View file

kernel/ptrace.c

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diff --git a/kernel/ptrace.c b/kernel/ptrace.c
index b88d418..17ee7e5 100644
--- a/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_ptrace(long request, long pid, long addr, long data)
 
 	if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH) {
 		ret = ptrace_attach(child);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_put_task_struct;
 	}
 
 	ret = ptrace_check_attach(child, request == PTRACE_KILL);