linux-kernel - [PATCH][next] EVM: fix memory leak of temporary buffer 'temp'

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Date:   Sun, 27 May 2018 23:15:02 +0100
From:   Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
To:     Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...gle.com>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH][next] EVM: fix memory leak of temporary buffer 'temp'

From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

The allocation of 'temp' is not kfree'd and hence there is a memory
leak on each call of evm_read_xattrs.  Fix this by kfree'ing it
after copying data from it back to the user space buffer 'buf'.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469386 ("Resource Leak")

Fixes: fa516b66a1bf ("EVM: Allow runtime modification of the set of verified xattrs")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
---
 security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
index a7a0a1acae99..fb8bc950aceb 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ static ssize_t evm_read_xattrs(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
 	mutex_unlock(&xattr_list_mutex);
 	rc = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, temp, strlen(temp));
 
+	kfree(temp);
+
 	return rc;
 }
 
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