Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6:
  CRED: Fix memory leak in error handling

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index 1ed8ca18790c..1b1129d0cce8 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void)
 
 	new = kmem_cache_alloc(cred_jar, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (!new)
-		return NULL;
+		goto free_tgcred;
 
 	kdebug("prepare_usermodehelper_creds() alloc %p", new);
 
@@ -397,6 +397,10 @@ struct cred *prepare_usermodehelper_creds(void)
 
 error:
 	put_cred(new);
+free_tgcred:
+#ifdef CONFIG_KEYS
+	kfree(tgcred);
+#endif
 	return NULL;
 }