From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: stable@kernel.org
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failure
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:57:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <13715.1297123030@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110207133615.18389.19276.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without
assigning new->usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error. As a
result, memory for new and refcount for new->{user,group_info,tgcred} are
leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old->usage == 1.
Fix these leaks by assigning new->usage (and new->subscribers which was added
in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
---
kernel/cred.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index fcf104b..3a9d6dd 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -657,6 +657,8 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
validate_creds(old);
*new = *old;
+ atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
+ set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
get_uid(new->user);
get_group_info(new->group_info);
@@ -674,8 +676,6 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
goto error;
- atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
- set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
put_cred(old);
validate_creds(new);
return new;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-07 23:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-07 13:36 [PATCH 1/2] CRED: Fix BUG() upon security_cred_alloc_blank() failure David Howells
2011-02-07 13:36 ` [PATCH 2/2] CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failure David Howells
2011-02-07 23:57 ` David Howells [this message]
2011-02-07 23:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] CRED: Fix BUG() upon security_cred_alloc_blank() failure Andrew Morton
2011-02-07 23:56 ` David Howells
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