From: Horms <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY, 2.4] Avoid 'names_cache' memory leak with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:42:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051029034258.GM4961@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130493647.2800.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 18:27 +0900, Horms wrote:
> > This is CAN-2005-3181, and a backport of
> > 829841146878e082613a49581ae252c071057c23 from Linus's 2.6 tree to 2.4.
> >
> > Original Description and Sign-Off:
> >
> > Avoid 'names_cache' memory leak with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL
> >
> > The nameidata "last.name" is always allocated with "__getname()", and
> > should always be free'd with "__putname()".
> >
> > Using "putname()" without the underscores will leak memory, because the
> > allocation will have been hidden from the AUDITSYSCALL code.
>
> > My sign off, indicating I think it applies to 2.4:
>
>
> since there is no such thing as CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL in any 2.4 kernel, I
> really think this is entirely NOT relevant to 2.4.....
Thanks, I withdraw the patch.
--
Horms
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-29 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-28 9:27 [PATCH] [SECURITY, 2.4] Avoid 'names_cache' memory leak with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL Horms
2005-10-28 10:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-10-29 3:42 ` Horms [this message]
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