linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] tomoyo: robustify handling of mm->exe

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:38:27 -0800
From:	Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	takedakn@...data.co.jp, penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp,
	linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] tomoyo: robustify handling of mm->exe_file

On Wed, 2015-02-18 at 16:10 -0800, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
> +static const char *tomoyo_get_exe(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> +	struct file *exe_file;
> +	const char *cp = NULL;
> +
> +	if (!mm)
> +		return NULL;
> +	exe_file = get_mm_exe_file(mm);
> +	if (!exe_file)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	cp = tomoyo_realpath_from_path(&exe_file->f_path);

tomoyo_realpath_from_path can return NULL here, thus we'd leak the
f_path in the caller... I guess this should be:

> +	path_get(&exe_file->f_path);

	if (cp)
		path_get(&exe_file->f_path);

> +	fput(exe_file);
> +	return cp;
> +}

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