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| author | Brian Pomerantz <bapper@piratehaven.org> | 2007-04-01 23:49:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-02 10:06:08 -0700 |
| commit | 03221702608c60b470fc86a23bdf4bc30e5bd59f (patch) | |
| tree | ab83782a3ece940838604ac8a44676e9734b6909 /fs/binfmt_elf.c | |
| parent | 2400ff77e7025bf6ffb71afdcbfbdd9aa47dfc36 (diff) | |
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[PATCH] fix page leak during core dump
When the dump cannot occur most likely because of a full file system and
the page to be written is the zero page, the call to page_cache_release()
is missed.
Signed-off-by: Brian Pomerantz <bapper@mvista.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/binfmt_elf.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/binfmt_elf.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index a2fceba..9cc4f0a 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -1704,7 +1704,10 @@ static int elf_core_dump(long signr, struct pt_regs *regs, struct file *file) DUMP_SEEK(PAGE_SIZE); } else { if (page == ZERO_PAGE(addr)) { - DUMP_SEEK(PAGE_SIZE); + if (!dump_seek(file, PAGE_SIZE)) { + page_cache_release(page); + goto end_coredump; + } } else { void *kaddr; flush_cache_page(vma, addr, |