linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc

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Date:   Tue, 1 Nov 2022 05:35:17 -0700
From:   John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>
To:     Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@...wei.com>, paul@...l-moore.com,
        serge@...lyn.com
Cc:     apparmor@...ts.ubuntu.com, linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

On 10/28/22 05:33, Xiu Jianfeng wrote:
> After changes in commit a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on
> replacement"), the hname member of struct aa_policy is not valid slab
> object, but a subset of that, it can not be freed by kfree_sensitive(),
> use aa_policy_destroy() to fix it.
> 
> Fixes: a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on replacement")
> Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng@...wei.com>

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@...onical.com>

I have pulled this into my tree

> ---
>   security/apparmor/policy_ns.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
> index 5c38563a6dcf..fd5b7afbcb48 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static struct aa_ns *alloc_ns(const char *prefix, const char *name)
>   	return ns;
>   
>   fail_unconfined:
> -	kfree_sensitive(ns->base.hname);
> +	aa_policy_destroy(&ns->base);
>   fail_ns:
>   	kfree_sensitive(ns);
>   	return NULL;