[PATCH 6.8 249/399] Fix memory leak in posix_clock_open()

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6.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 5b4cdd9c5676559b8a7c944ac5269b914b8c0bb8 upstream.

If the clk ops.open() function returns an error, we don't release the
pccontext we allocated for this clock.

Re-organize the code slightly to make it all more obvious.

Reported-by: Rohit Keshri <rkeshri@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 60c6946675fc ("posix-clock: introduce posix_clock_context concept")
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/time/posix-clock.c |   16 +++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
@@ -129,15 +129,17 @@ static int posix_clock_open(struct inode
 		goto out;
 	}
 	pccontext->clk = clk;
-	fp->private_data = pccontext;
-	if (clk->ops.open)
+	if (clk->ops.open) {
 		err = clk->ops.open(pccontext, fp->f_mode);
-	else
-		err = 0;
-
-	if (!err) {
-		get_device(clk->dev);
+		if (err) {
+			kfree(pccontext);
+			goto out;
+		}
 	}
+
+	fp->private_data = pccontext;
+	get_device(clk->dev);
+	err = 0;
 out:
 	up_read(&clk->rwsem);
 	return err;






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