cgroups: avoid accessing uninitialized data in failure path

If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called in the
failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized at that time.

I introduced this bug in the 2.6.27 merge window.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Menage <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index a3415507bd0a46f666a01ce2534c6f5b07c33268..2606d0fb4e54e8f120618328c7b72c01634dc35d 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
                if (ret == -EBUSY) {
                        mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
                        mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
-                       goto drop_new_super;
+                       goto free_cg_links;
                }
 
                /* EBUSY should be the only error here */
@@ -1073,10 +1073,11 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
 
        return simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb);
 
+ free_cg_links:
+       free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
  drop_new_super:
        up_write(&sb->s_umount);
        deactivate_super(sb);
-       free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
        return ret;
 }