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fix freeing user_struct in user cache

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When racing on adding into user cache, the new allocated from mm slab
is freed without putting user namespace.

Since the user namespace is already operated by getting, putting has
to be issued.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Hillf Danton 2010-12-29 21:55:28 +08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 387c31c7e5
commit 4ef9e11d68
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@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct user_struct *alloc_uid(struct user_namespace *ns, uid_t uid)
spin_lock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
up = uid_hash_find(uid, hashent);
if (up) {
put_user_ns(ns);
key_put(new->uid_keyring);
key_put(new->session_keyring);
kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, new);