From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:44:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50352873.9070706@schaufler-ca.com> (raw)
From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix
The data structure allocations being done in prepare_creds
are duplicated in smack_setprocattr. This results in the
structure allocated in prepare_creds being orphaned and
never freed. The duplicate code is removed from
smack_setprocattr.
Targeted for git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel.git
Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
---
security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 14 ++------------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index ce9273a..2874c73 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -2684,9 +2684,7 @@ static int smack_getprocattr(struct task_struct *p, char *name, char **value)
static int smack_setprocattr(struct task_struct *p, char *name,
void *value, size_t size)
{
- int rc;
struct task_smack *tsp;
- struct task_smack *oldtsp;
struct cred *new;
char *newsmack;
@@ -2716,21 +2714,13 @@ static int smack_setprocattr(struct task_struct *p, char *name,
if (newsmack == smack_known_web.smk_known)
return -EPERM;
- oldtsp = p->cred->security;
new = prepare_creds();
if (new == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
- tsp = new_task_smack(newsmack, oldtsp->smk_forked, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (tsp == NULL) {
- kfree(new);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
- rc = smk_copy_rules(&tsp->smk_rules, &oldtsp->smk_rules, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (rc != 0)
- return rc;
+ tsp = new->security;
+ tsp->smk_task = newsmack;
- new->security = tsp;
commit_creds(new);
return size;
}
next reply other threads:[~2012-08-22 18:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 18:44 Casey Schaufler [this message]
2012-08-23 12:48 ` [PATCH] Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix David Howells
2012-08-23 15:58 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-08-23 16:51 ` Casey Schaufler
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2012-08-22 21:49 Casey Schaufler
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