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* [PATCH v2] ima/evm: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()
@ 2022-07-12  1:10 Jianglei Nie
  2022-07-12 11:40 ` Mimi Zohar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Jianglei Nie @ 2022-07-12  1:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: zohar, dmitry.kasatkin, jmorris, serge
  Cc: linux-integrity, linux-security-module, linux-kernel,
	Jianglei Nie

On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm, IMA fails to initialize and exits
without freeing the ima_algo_array. Add the missing kfree() for
ima_algo_array to avoid the potential memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@163.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c
index a7206cc1d7d1..64499056648a 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_crypto.c
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ int __init ima_init_crypto(void)
 
 		crypto_free_shash(ima_algo_array[i].tfm);
 	}
+	kfree(ima_algo_array);
 out:
 	crypto_free_shash(ima_shash_tfm);
 	return rc;
-- 
2.25.1


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* Re: [PATCH v2] ima/evm: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()
  2022-07-12  1:10 [PATCH v2] ima/evm: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto() Jianglei Nie
@ 2022-07-12 11:40 ` Mimi Zohar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Mimi Zohar @ 2022-07-12 11:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jianglei Nie, dmitry.kasatkin, jmorris, serge
  Cc: linux-integrity, linux-security-module, linux-kernel

On Tue, 2022-07-12 at 09:10 +0800, Jianglei Nie wrote:
> On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm, IMA fails to initialize and exits
> without freeing the ima_algo_array. Add the missing kfree() for
> ima_algo_array to avoid the potential memory leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jianglei Nie <niejianglei2021@163.com>

Thanks, Jianglei.  This patch is now queued in next-integrity/next-
integrity-testing.

Mimi


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