Leak fixes back in 2008 missed one case - if we are trying to set affinity and spufs_mkdir() fails, we need to drop the reference to neighbor. Fixes: 58119068cb27 "[POWERPC] spufs: Fix memory leak on SPU affinity" Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c index c566e7997f2c..9f9e4b871627 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c @@ -460,8 +460,11 @@ spufs_create_context(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *dentry, } ret = spufs_mkdir(inode, dentry, flags, mode & 0777); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + if (neighbor) + put_spu_context(neighbor); goto out_aff_unlock; + } if (affinity) { spufs_set_affinity(flags, SPUFS_I(d_inode(dentry))->i_ctx, -- 2.39.5