| Message ID | 20180527221502.25073-1-colin.king@canonical.com (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
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On Sun, 2018-05-27 at 23:15 +0100, Colin King wrote: > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.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@canonical.com> Thanks, this patch and "EVM: Fix null dereference on xattr when xattr fails to allocate" are queued in the next-integrity branch. Mimi > --- > 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; > } > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-security-module" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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; }