Re: [PATCH] integrity: fix IMA inode leak

From: Mimi Zohar
Date: Sun Jun 07 2009 - 02:07:44 EST


On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 21:18 +0100, 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().
>
> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This call was accidentally dropped in the conversion from
using the LIM hooks to embedding the IMA calls directly. I'm
really sorry.

Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> fs/inode.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> --- 2.6.30-rc8/fs/inode.c 2009-05-16 10:26:15.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/fs/inode.c 2009-06-06 17:41:21.000000000 +0100
> @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ static struct inode *alloc_inode(struct
> void destroy_inode(struct inode *inode)
> {
> BUG_ON(inode_has_buffers(inode));
> + ima_inode_free(inode);
> security_inode_free(inode);
> if (inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode)
> inode->i_sb->s_op->destroy_inode(inode);

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