Instead of leaking the ucounts in new if alloc_ucounts fails, store the result of alloc_ucounts into a temporary variable, which is later assigned to new->ucounts. Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fixes: 905ae01c4ae2 ("Add a reference to ucounts for each cred") Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cred.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c index 3d163bfd64a9..16c05dfbec4d 100644 --- a/kernel/cred.c +++ b/kernel/cred.c @@ -669,7 +669,7 @@ int set_cred_ucounts(struct cred *new) { struct task_struct *task = current; const struct cred *old = task->real_cred; - struct ucounts *old_ucounts = new->ucounts; + struct ucounts *new_ucounts, *old_ucounts = new->ucounts; if (new->user == old->user && new->user_ns == old->user_ns) return 0; @@ -681,9 +681,10 @@ int set_cred_ucounts(struct cred *new) if (old_ucounts && old_ucounts->ns == new->user_ns && uid_eq(old_ucounts->uid, new->euid)) return 0; - if (!(new->ucounts = alloc_ucounts(new->user_ns, new->euid))) + if (!(new_ucounts = alloc_ucounts(new->user_ns, new->euid))) return -EAGAIN; + new->ucounts = new_ucounts; if (old_ucounts) put_ucounts(old_ucounts); -- 2.20.1