fanotify: do not leak user reference on allocation failure

If fanotify_init is unable to allocate a new fsnotify group it will
return but will not drop its reference on the associated user struct.
Drop that reference on error.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 01fffe6..ca54957 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -692,8 +692,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags)
 
        /* fsnotify_alloc_group takes a ref.  Dropped in fanotify_release */
        group = fsnotify_alloc_group(&fanotify_fsnotify_ops);
-       if (IS_ERR(group))
+       if (IS_ERR(group)) {
+               free_uid(user);
                return PTR_ERR(group);
+       }
 
        group->fanotify_data.user = user;
        atomic_inc(&user->fanotify_listeners);