From: shuwang@redhat.com
To: paul@paul-moore.com, eparis@redhat.com
Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
liwang@redhat.com, chuhu@redhat.com, shuwang@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] audit: fix memleak in auditd_send_unicast_skb.
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:37:24 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1500359844-27882-1-git-send-email-shuwang@redhat.com> (raw)
From: Shu Wang <shuwang@redhat.com>
Found this issue by kmemleak report, auditd_send_unicast_skb
did not free skb if rcu_dereference(auditd_conn) returns null.
unreferenced object 0xffff88082568ce00 (size 256):
comm "auditd", pid 1119, jiffies 4294708499
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8176166a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
[<ffffffff8121820c>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xcc/0x210
[<ffffffff8161b99d>] __alloc_skb+0x5d/0x290
[<ffffffff8113c614>] audit_make_reply+0x54/0xd0
[<ffffffff8113dfa7>] audit_receive_msg+0x967/0xd70
----------------
(gdb) list *audit_receive_msg+0x967
0xffffffff8113dff7 is in audit_receive_msg (kernel/audit.c:1133).
1132 skb = audit_make_reply(0, AUDIT_REPLACE, 0,
0, &pvnr, sizeof(pvnr));
---------------
[<ffffffff8113e402>] audit_receive+0x52/0xa0
[<ffffffff8166c561>] netlink_unicast+0x181/0x240
[<ffffffff8166c8e2>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2c2/0x3b0
[<ffffffff816112e8>] sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50
[<ffffffff816117a2>] SYSC_sendto+0x102/0x190
[<ffffffff81612f4e>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8176d337>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa5
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@redhat.com>
---
kernel/audit.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 833267b..6dd5569 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ static int auditd_send_unicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
ac = rcu_dereference(auditd_conn);
if (!ac) {
rcu_read_unlock();
+ kfree_skb(skb);
rc = -ECONNREFUSED;
goto err;
}
--
2.5.0
next reply other threads:[~2017-07-18 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-18 6:37 shuwang [this message]
2017-07-18 12:21 ` [PATCH] audit: fix memleak in auditd_send_unicast_skb Paul Moore
2017-07-19 0:10 ` Shu Wang
2017-07-19 14:35 ` Paul Moore
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