On Fri, 8 May 2020 00:14:22 +0200 Vincent Minet wrote:
> 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.minet@xxxxxxxxxx>
Applied to net, thank you!
