Some time ago I have found a memleak in binfmt_elf.c in 2.5, that was quickly
fixed by Andrew Morton. The same problem is present in current 2.4 tree.
Andrew's fix applies to 2.4 with a little fuzz and the result looks correct
to me. Consider applying following patch (against latest 2.4 bk tree).
Bye,
Oleg
===== fs/binfmt_elf.c 1.21 vs edited =====
--- 1.21/fs/binfmt_elf.c Sat May 4 21:05:24 2002
+++ edited/fs/binfmt_elf.c Tue Apr 22 23:09:38 2003
@@ -375,7 +375,6 @@
unsigned long text_data, elf_entry = ~0UL;
char * addr;
loff_t offset;
- int retval;
current->mm->end_code = interp_ex->a_text;
text_data = interp_ex->a_text + interp_ex->a_data;
@@ -397,11 +396,9 @@
}
do_brk(0, text_data);
- retval = -ENOEXEC;
if (!interpreter->f_op || !interpreter->f_op->read)
goto out;
- retval = interpreter->f_op->read(interpreter, addr, text_data, &offset);
- if (retval < 0)
+ if (interpreter->f_op->read(interpreter, addr, text_data, &offset) < 0)
goto out;
flush_icache_range((unsigned long)addr,
(unsigned long)addr + text_data);
@@ -607,7 +604,7 @@
retval = setup_arg_pages(bprm);
if (retval < 0) {
send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
- return retval;
+ goto out_free_dentry;
}
current->mm->start_stack = bprm->p;
@@ -711,7 +708,8 @@
printk(KERN_ERR "Unable to load interpreter\n");
kfree(elf_phdata);
send_sig(SIGSEGV, current, 0);
- return 0;
+ retval = -ENOEXEC; /* Nobody gets to see this, but.. */
+ goto out;
}
}
-
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