linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 132/206] ima: fix memory leak in ima_release

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Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:36:55 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        Eric Richter <erichte@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 132/206] ima: fix memory leak in ima_release_policy

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Eric Richter <erichte@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>

commit 9a11a18902bc3b904353063763d06480620245a6 upstream.

When the "policy" securityfs file is opened for read, it is opened as a
sequential file. However, when it is eventually released, there is no
cleanup for the sequential file, therefore some memory is leaked.

This patch adds a call to seq_release() in ima_release_policy() to clean up
the memory when the file is opened for read.

Fixes: 80eae209d63a IMA: allow reading back the current policy
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Richter <erichte@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c
@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ static int ima_release_policy(struct ino
 	const char *cause = valid_policy ? "completed" : "failed";
 
 	if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY)
-		return 0;
+		return seq_release(inode, file);
 
 	if (valid_policy && ima_check_policy() < 0) {
 		cause = "failed";