[PATCH] eventfs: Fix failure path in eventfs_create_events_dir()

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Oct 19 2023 - 20:41:41 EST


From: "Steven Rostedt (Google)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

The failure path of allocating ei goes to a path that dereferences ei.
Add another label that skips over the ei dereferences to do the rest of
the clean up.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/70e7bace-561c-95f-1117-706c2c220bc@xxxxxxxx/

Fixes: 5790b1fb3d67 ("eventfs: Remove eventfs_file and just use eventfs_inode")
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/tracefs/event_inode.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
index 9f19b6608954..1885f1f1f339 100644
--- a/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
+++ b/fs/tracefs/event_inode.c
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry

ei = kzalloc(sizeof(*ei), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ei)
- goto fail;
+ goto fail_ei;

inode = tracefs_get_inode(dentry->d_sb);
if (unlikely(!inode))
@@ -781,6 +781,7 @@ struct eventfs_inode *eventfs_create_events_dir(const char *name, struct dentry
fail:
kfree(ei->d_children);
kfree(ei);
+ fail_ei:
tracefs_failed_creating(dentry);
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
}
--
2.42.0