From ba62bafe942b159a6109cbec780d36496e06b6c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 15:33:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] kernel/relay.c: fix potential memory leak

When relay_open_buf() fails in relay_open(), code will goto free_bufs,
but chan is nowhere freed.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464777927-19675-1-git-send-email-yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/relay.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/relay.c b/kernel/relay.c
index 074994bcfa9be..04d7cf3ef8cf9 100644
--- a/kernel/relay.c
+++ b/kernel/relay.c
@@ -614,6 +614,7 @@ struct rchan *relay_open(const char *base_filename,
 
 	kref_put(&chan->kref, relay_destroy_channel);
 	mutex_unlock(&relay_channels_mutex);
+	kfree(chan);
 	return NULL;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(relay_open);
-- 
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