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Message-Id: <1469780120-315-1-git-send-email-fabf@skynet.be>
Date:	Fri, 29 Jul 2016 10:15:20 +0200
From:	Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
To:	Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Cc:	Manfred Spraul <manfred@...orfullife.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, fabf@...net.be
Subject: [PATCH 1/1 linux-next] ipc/msg.c: fix memory leak in do_msgsnd()

Running LTP msgsnd06 with kmemleak gives the following:

cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

unreferenced object 0xffff88003c0a11f8 (size 8):
  comm "msgsnd06", pid 1645, jiffies 4294672526 (age 6.549s)
  hex dump (first 8 bytes):
    1b 00 00 00 01 00 00 00                          ........
  backtrace:
    [<ffffffff818e2c43>] kmemleak_alloc+0x23/0x40
    [<ffffffff81177f31>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xe1/0x180
    [<ffffffff812d42af>] selinux_msg_queue_alloc_security+0x3f/0xd0
    [<ffffffff812cc6be>] security_msg_queue_alloc+0x2e/0x40
    [<ffffffff812b94ee>] newque+0x4e/0x150
    [<ffffffff812b8cb9>] ipcget+0x159/0x1b0
    [<ffffffff812b98d9>] SyS_msgget+0x39/0x40
    [<ffffffff818e7bdb>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x13/0x8f
    [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

ipc_rcu_free() was given to ipc_rcu_putref() instead of msg_rcu_free()
which does security cleaning.

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@...net.be>
---
 ipc/msg.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ipc/msg.c b/ipc/msg.c
index 59559a2..43e9631 100644
--- a/ipc/msg.c
+++ b/ipc/msg.c
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ long do_msgsnd(int msqid, long mtype, void __user *mtext,
 		rcu_read_lock();
 		ipc_lock_object(&msq->q_perm);
 
-		ipc_rcu_putref(msq, ipc_rcu_free);
+		ipc_rcu_putref(msq, msg_rcu_free);
 		/* raced with RMID? */
 		if (!ipc_valid_object(&msq->q_perm)) {
 			err = -EIDRM;
-- 
2.8.1