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

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Message-ID: <cZRmjWGyTyKt.6khQFf0y@mail.hp.com>
Date:	Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:49:52 -0400
From:	"Paul Moore" <paul.moore@...com>
To:	Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
Cc:	jmorris@...ei.org, eparis@...isplace.org, sds@...ho.nsa.gov,
	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

[sorry for the top posting]

Looks good to me, thanks for fixing it up.

Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@...com>

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paul moore
linux @ hp

-original message-
Subject: [PATCH V2] selinux: fix memory leak in sel_make_bools
From: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
Date: 08/13/2009 10:02 PM

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.

This patch resolves dozens of following kmemleak report after resuming
from suspend:
unreferenced object 0xffff88022e4c7380 (size 32):
  comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294677173
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff810f76b5>] create_object+0x1a2/0x2a9
    [<ffffffff810f78bb>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x4b
    [<ffffffff810ef3eb>] __kmalloc+0x18f/0x1b8
    [<ffffffff811cd511>] security_get_bools+0xd7/0x16f
    [<ffffffff811c48c0>] sel_write_load+0x12e/0x62b
    [<ffffffff810f9a39>] vfs_write+0xae/0x10b
    [<ffffffff810f9b56>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
    [<ffffffff81011b82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@...hat.com>
---
 security/selinux/selinuxfs.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
index b4fc506..1a8a1c2 100644
--- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
+++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
@@ -979,6 +979,8 @@ static int sel_make_bools(void)
 	u32 sid;
 
 	/* remove any existing files */
+	for (i = 0; i < bool_num; i++)
+		kfree(bool_pending_names[i]);
 	kfree(bool_pending_names);
 	kfree(bool_pending_values);
 	bool_pending_names = NULL;
-- 
1.6.2.5


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