commit 005f18dfd0ed86c39716277b61dfb4bd2af91059
author Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Sun Nov 13 16:06:33 2005 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Sun Nov 13 18:14:11 2005 -0800
tree 8425228dc52bb38a5fe85d52afaecacca2f3a6fd
parent ab767201881fec073157986c314485ab26caa4a0

[PATCH] fix task_struct leak in ptrace

When ptrace_attach fails we need to drop the task_struct reference.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

kernel/ptrace.c

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 @@
 
 	if (request == PTRACE_ATTACH) {
 		ret = ptrace_attach(child);
-		goto out;
+		goto out_put_task_struct;
 	}
 
 	ret = ptrace_check_attach(child, request == PTRACE_KILL);