Quoting Li Zefan (lizf@cn.fujitsu.com):
quoted text
> If cgroup_get_rootdir() failed, free_cg_links() will be called
> in the failure path, but tmp_cg_links hasn't been initialized
> at that time.
> 
> I should be blamed to introduce this bug in 2.6.26 merge window.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>

Certainly looks right.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>

quoted text
> ---
>  kernel/cgroup.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 8185a0f..330b7ae 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -1024,7 +1024,7 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
>  		if (ret == -EBUSY) {
>  			mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
>  			mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
> -			goto drop_new_super;
> +			goto free_cg_links;
>  		}
> 
>  		/* EBUSY should be the only error here */
> @@ -1073,10 +1073,11 @@ static int cgroup_get_sb(struct file_system_type *fs_type,
> 
>  	return simple_set_mnt(mnt, sb);
> 
> + free_cg_links:
> +	free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
>   drop_new_super:
>  	up_write(&sb->s_umount);
>  	deactivate_super(sb);
> -	free_cg_links(&tmp_cg_links);
>  	return ret;
>  }
> 
> -- 
> 1.5.4.rc3
> 
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