From: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
To: LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>,
LKLM <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:51:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50365F9F.7020308@schaufler-ca.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50352873.9070706@schaufler-ca.com>
On 8/22/2012 11:44 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> 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>
Applied to git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel.git
>
> ---
>
> 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;
> }
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-23 16:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-22 18:44 [PATCH] Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix Casey Schaufler
2012-08-23 12:48 ` David Howells
2012-08-23 15:58 ` Casey Schaufler
2012-08-23 16:51 ` Casey Schaufler [this message]
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2012-08-22 21:49 Casey Schaufler
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