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From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
To: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>,
	Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 linux-next] ipc/msg.c: fix memory leak in do_msgsnd()
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:57:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160801185750.GC31421@linux-80c1.suse> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1470051658-11821-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be>

On Mon, 01 Aug 2016, Fabian Frederick wrote:

>Commit 53dad6d3a8e5
>("ipc: fix race with LSMs") updated ipc_rcu_putref() to receive
>rcu freeing function but used generic ipc_rcu_free() instead
>of msg_rcu_free() which does security cleaning.
>
>Running LTP msgsnd06 with kmemleak gives the following:
>
>cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
>
>unreferenced object 0xffff88003c0a11f8 (size 8):
>  comm "msgsnd06", pid 1645, jiffies 4294672526 (age 6.549s)
>  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
>    1b 00 00 00 01 00 00 00                          ........
>  backtrace:
>    [<ffffffff818e2c43>] kmemleak_alloc+0x23/0x40
>    [<ffffffff81177f31>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xe1/0x180
>    [<ffffffff812d42af>] selinux_msg_queue_alloc_security+0x3f/0xd0
>    [<ffffffff812cc6be>] security_msg_queue_alloc+0x2e/0x40
>    [<ffffffff812b94ee>] newque+0x4e/0x150
>    [<ffffffff812b8cb9>] ipcget+0x159/0x1b0
>    [<ffffffff812b98d9>] SyS_msgget+0x39/0x40
>    [<ffffffff818e7bdb>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f
>    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
>Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
>---
>V2: Update description with original commit and cc stable
>(Suggested by Manfred Spraul)

Ideally we would have the fix for sem.c in the same patch, under, ie:

"sysv, ipc: fix security-layer leaking"

Just like with shm and msg, the only caller of ipc_rcu_free() should be a
failed security allocation in newary().

Thanks,
Davidlohr

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-01 18:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-01 11:40 [PATCH V2 linux-next] ipc/msg.c: fix memory leak in do_msgsnd() Fabian Frederick
2016-08-01 12:24 ` Greg KH
2016-08-01 19:10   ` Davidlohr Bueso
2016-08-01 18:57 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]

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