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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: jmorris@namei.org, eparis@parisplace.org, sds@tycho.nsa.gov,
	paul.moore@hp.com, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] selinux: fix memory leak in sel_make_bools
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:36:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090814023640.GA21205@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1250215360-20871-1-git-send-email-dfeng@redhat.com>

Quoting Xiaotian Feng (dfeng@redhat.com):
> In sel_make_bools, kernel allocates memory for bool_pending_names[i]
> with security_get_bools. So if we just free bool_pending_names, those
> memories for bool_pending_names[i] will be leaked.
> 
> This patch resolves dozens of following kmemleak report after resuming
> from suspend:
> unreferenced object 0xffff88022e4c7380 (size 32):
>   comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294677173
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffff810f76b5>] create_object+0x1a2/0x2a9
>     [<ffffffff810f78bb>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x4b
>     [<ffffffff810ef3eb>] __kmalloc+0x18f/0x1b8
>     [<ffffffff811cd511>] security_get_bools+0xd7/0x16f
>     [<ffffffff811c48c0>] sel_write_load+0x12e/0x62b
>     [<ffffffff810f9a39>] vfs_write+0xae/0x10b
>     [<ffffffff810f9b56>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
>     [<ffffffff81011b82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>     [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
> 
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com>

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

> ---
>  security/selinux/selinuxfs.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> index b4fc506..1a8a1c2 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> @@ -979,6 +979,8 @@ static int sel_make_bools(void)
>  	u32 sid;
> 
>  	/* remove any existing files */
> +	for (i = 0; i < bool_num; i++)
> +		kfree(bool_pending_names[i]);
>  	kfree(bool_pending_names);
>  	kfree(bool_pending_values);
>  	bool_pending_names = NULL;
> -- 
> 1.6.2.5

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-14  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-13  8:26 [PATCH] selinux: fix memory leak in sel_make_bools Xiaotian Feng
2009-08-13 18:55 ` Paul Moore
2009-08-14  2:00   ` Danny Feng
2009-08-14  2:02 ` [PATCH V2] " Xiaotian Feng
2009-08-14  2:36   ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2009-08-14  6:06   ` James Morris
2010-02-08 10:59     ` Xiaotian Feng
2010-02-08 21:24       ` James Morris
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-08-14  4:49 Paul Moore

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