linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] selinux: fix memory leak in sel_make

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Date:	Tue, 9 Feb 2010 08:24:18 +1100 (EST)
From:	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
To:	Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
cc:	eparis@...isplace.org, sds@...ho.nsa.gov, paul.moore@...com,
	serue@...ibm.com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] selinux: fix memory leak in sel_make_bools

On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Xiaotian Feng wrote:

> On 08/14/2009 02:06 PM, James Morris wrote:
> > On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Xiaotian Feng wrote:
> > 
> > > In sel_make_bools, kernel allocates memory for bool_pending_names[i]
> > > with security_get_bools. So if we just free bool_pending_names, those
> > > memories for bool_pending_names[i] will be leaked.
> > 
> > Thanks, applied and pushed to Linus.
> This patch is missing or dropped? I'm not seeing this patch until 2.6.33-rc7,
> thanks.

Not sure what happened to that -- I pushed it to Linus, but it's not in 
the tree for some reason.  Now applied to

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6#next


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James Morris
<jmorris@...ei.org>
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