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authorPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-06-27 15:45:09 +0200
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>2017-06-27 15:45:09 +0200
commit525df86145bf731af522ba9b3982c5b48078b81a (patch)
tree76d7f38890872d6e6b4a3c7ae3dc4b16165edfb5 /virt
parent039c5d1b2c5f249f5a291215eb5f0eb0afd54f81 (diff)
downloadlinux-525df86145bf731af522ba9b3982c5b48078b81a.tar.bz2
KVM: explain missing kvm_put_kvm in case of failure
The call to kvm_put_kvm was removed from error handling in commit 506cfba9e726 ("KVM: don't use anon_inode_getfd() before possible failures"), but it is _not_ a memory leak. Reuse Al's explanation to avoid that someone else makes the same mistake. Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'virt')
-rw-r--r--virt/kvm/kvm_main.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
index 3863cf7ae1a3..19f0ecb9b93e 100644
--- a/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
+++ b/virt/kvm/kvm_main.c
@@ -3191,6 +3191,12 @@ static int kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm(unsigned long type)
return PTR_ERR(file);
}
+ /*
+ * Don't call kvm_put_kvm anymore at this point; file->f_op is
+ * already set, with ->release() being kvm_vm_release(). In error
+ * cases it will be called by the final fput(file) and will take
+ * care of doing kvm_put_kvm(kvm).
+ */
if (kvm_create_vm_debugfs(kvm, r) < 0) {
put_unused_fd(r);
fput(file);