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Message-ID: <1561884.1cnB23BPDD@sifl>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:41:09 -0400
From:	Paul Moore <paul@...l-moore.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>, selinux@...ho.nsa.gov,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] selinux: fix a possible memory leak in cond_read_node()

On Sunday, June 15, 2014 01:19:02 AM Namhyung Kim wrote:
> The cond_read_node() should free the given node on error path as it's
> not linked to p->cond_list yet.  This is done via cond_node_destroy()
> but it's not called when next_entry() fails before the expr loop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
> ---
>  security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, nice catch.  This patch looks good to me but it is dependent on patch 
1/2 which I commented on ... 

> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c index 4766a38fae9a..470d5cca8d14 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int cond_read_node(struct policydb *p, struct
> cond_node *node, void *fp)
> 
>  	rc = next_entry(buf, fp, sizeof(buf));
>  	if (rc)
> -		return rc;
> +		goto err;
> 
>  	node->cur_state = le32_to_cpu(buf[0]);

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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