From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: john.johansen@canonical.com, georgia.garcia@canonical.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: FAILED: patch "[PATCH] apparmor: fix refcount leak in aa_get_newest_profile()" failed to apply to 5.10-stable tree
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2026 06:30:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261107063050-failed-5.10-33ed50716251@kernel.org> (raw)
The patch below does not apply to the 5.10-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.
To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:
git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-5.10.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 33ed50716251d5b2875706c40d0c8082d46be0b1
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '20261107063050-failed-5.10-33ed50716251@kernel.org' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 5.10.y' 'HEAD^..'
Thanks,
Sasha
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 33ed50716251d5b2875706c40d0c8082d46be0b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:00:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] apparmor: fix refcount leak in aa_get_newest_profile()
The labels_profile() macro is evaluating its argument twice
#define labels_profile(X) ((X)->vec[(X)->size - 1])
unfortunately aa_get_newest_profile() passes
aa_get_newest_label(&p->label)
so every call to aa_get_newest_profile results in 2 refcounts
being taken with one being leaked.
There is no need for labels_profile() to be a macro. Convert it to
an inline fn, which ensures all uses are passing the correct struct
and removes the double evaluation.
Fixes: 637f688dc3dc ("apparmor: switch from profiles to using labels on contexts")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
---
security/apparmor/include/label.h | 6 +++++-
security/apparmor/label.c | 1 -
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/label.h b/security/apparmor/include/label.h
index 2c869b7dec973..61794b9cd6be6 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/label.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/label.h
@@ -162,7 +162,11 @@ do { \
#define labels_ns(X) (vec_ns(&((X)->vec[0]), (X)->size))
#define labels_set(X) (&labels_ns(X)->labels)
#define labels_view(X) labels_ns(X)
-#define labels_profile(X) ((X)->vec[(X)->size - 1])
+
+static inline struct aa_profile *labels_profile(const struct aa_label *label)
+{
+ return label->vec[label->size - 1];
+}
int aa_label_next_confined(const struct aa_label *l, int i);
diff --git a/security/apparmor/label.c b/security/apparmor/label.c
index 82742a4710552..42ed476fe89d9 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/label.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/label.c
@@ -387,7 +387,6 @@ void aa_label_kref(struct kref *kref)
label_free_switch(label);
return;
}
- /* TODO: update labels_profile macro so it works here */
AA_BUG(label_isprofile(label) &&
on_list_rcu(&label->vec[0]->base.profiles));
AA_BUG(label_isprofile(label) &&
--
2.53.0
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