From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-Id: <20120103223032.764951931@clark.kroah.org> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:29:35 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Michel Lespinasse , Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Eric Paris Subject: [17/67] binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak In-Reply-To: <20120103223043.GA26738@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Michel Lespinasse commit 3d3c8f93a237b64580c5c5e138edeb1377e98230 upstream. binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache slab usin __getname() The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname() which should be used only to match getname() allocations. This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname *instead* (not in addition) to __putname(). Then, if a syscall is in progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e. if the name was allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname(). So, __getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory. Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse Acked-by: Al Viro Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Eric Paris Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/sysctl_binary.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c @@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ static ssize_t binary_sysctl(const int * fput(file); out_putname: - putname(pathname); + __putname(pathname); out: return result; }