linux-kernel - [PATCH] audit: fix memleak in auditd_send_unicast

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jul 2017 14:37:24 +0800
From:   shuwang@...hat.com
To:     paul@...l-moore.com, eparis@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        liwang@...hat.com, chuhu@...hat.com, shuwang@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] audit: fix memleak in auditd_send_unicast_skb.

From: Shu Wang <shuwang@...hat.com>

Found this issue by kmemleak report, auditd_send_unicast_skb
did not free skb if rcu_dereference(auditd_conn) returns null.

unreferenced object 0xffff88082568ce00 (size 256):
comm "auditd", pid 1119, jiffies 4294708499
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8176166a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
[<ffffffff8121820c>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xcc/0x210
[<ffffffff8161b99d>] __alloc_skb+0x5d/0x290
[<ffffffff8113c614>] audit_make_reply+0x54/0xd0
[<ffffffff8113dfa7>] audit_receive_msg+0x967/0xd70
----------------
(gdb) list *audit_receive_msg+0x967
0xffffffff8113dff7 is in audit_receive_msg (kernel/audit.c:1133).
1132    skb = audit_make_reply(0, AUDIT_REPLACE, 0,
                                0, &pvnr, sizeof(pvnr));
---------------
[<ffffffff8113e402>] audit_receive+0x52/0xa0
[<ffffffff8166c561>] netlink_unicast+0x181/0x240
[<ffffffff8166c8e2>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2c2/0x3b0
[<ffffffff816112e8>] sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50
[<ffffffff816117a2>] SYSC_sendto+0x102/0x190
[<ffffffff81612f4e>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8176d337>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa5
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@...hat.com>
---
 kernel/audit.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 833267b..6dd5569 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ static int auditd_send_unicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	ac = rcu_dereference(auditd_conn);
 	if (!ac) {
 		rcu_read_unlock();
+		kfree_skb(skb);
 		rc = -ECONNREFUSED;
 		goto err;
 	}
-- 
2.5.0