Re: [PATCH] integrity: fix IMA inode leak

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Jun 06 2009 - 17:19:30 EST




On Sat, 6 Jun 2009, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> CONFIG_IMA=y inode activity leaks iint_cache and radix_tree_node objects
> until the system runs out of memory. Nowhere is calling ima_inode_free()
> a.k.a. ima_iint_delete(). Fix that by calling it from destroy_inode().

Shouldn't we call it from "security_inode_free()" instead? And shouldn't
it be allocated in "security_inode_alloc()"? That sounds like the correct
nesting here, since the whole integrity thing is under the security
module.

Hmm?

Linus
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