Re: CVE request: kernel: inotify memory leak

[Eugene Teo <eugene () redhat com>]

On 11/24/2010 09:17 PM, Josh Bressers wrote:
> ----- "Eugene Teo"<eugene () redhat com>  wrote:
>
> > Reported by Vegard Nossum, if inotify_init is unable to allocate a new
> >
> > file for the new inotify group we leak the new group.
> >
> > Reproducer: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/11/23/418 (this test case is
> > only
> > relevant if c44dcc56 (v2.6.34-rc1) is backported)
> >
> > Issue was introduced in 63c882a0 (v2.6.31-rc1).
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/656830
>
> Please use CVE-2010-4250

A regression was found. We assigned it with CVE-2011-1479. Fix for it 
can be found at: http://git.kernel.org/linus/d0de4dc5. More info here: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2011-1479.

Thanks, Eugene
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