If a UMH process created by fork_usermode_blob() fails to execute,
a pair of struct file allocated by umh_pipe_setup() will leak.
Under normal conditions, the caller (like bpfilter) needs to manage the
lifetime of the UMH and its two pipes. But when fork_usermode_blob()
fails, the caller doesn't really have a way to know what needs to be
done. It seems better to do the cleanup ourselves in this case.
Fixes: 449325b52b7a ("umh: introduce fork_usermode_blob() helper")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Minet <v.mi...@criteo.com>
---
kernel/umh.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/umh.c b/kernel/umh.c
index 7f255b5a8845..20d51e0957e0 100644
--- a/kernel/umh.c
+++ b/kernel/umh.c
@@ -475,6 +475,12 @@ static void umh_clean_and_save_pid(struct subprocess_info
*info)
{
struct umh_info *umh_info = info->data;
+ /* cleanup if umh_pipe_setup() was successful but exec failed */
+ if (info->pid && info->retval) {
+ fput(umh_info->pipe_to_umh);
+ fput(umh_info->pipe_from_umh);
+ }
+
argv_free(info->argv);
umh_info->pid = info->pid;
}
--
2.26.2
