APPLIED: [Hardy-xen] SRU: Fix potential resource leak

[Tim Gardner]

On 06/21/2011 09:41 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> I think it is not released yet, but I gave it its own bug anyway. Though it is
> sort of a follow up for CVE-2010-4247.
> Attaching the actual patch not the patch as it would get added to the xen
> patches as it is much simpler to look at.
>
> SRU Justification:
>
> Impact: This only affects the xen custom kernel. When applying patches to fix
> CVE-2010-4247, a follow-up patch was missed that would fix a potention leak.
> This will only happen in the error case when the loop is prematurely ended.
>
> Fix: Patch taken from Xen repository.
>
> Testcase: none, found by code review and not sure how to trigger the error case
> the first place.
>


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