[PATCH] Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix

From: Casey Schaufler
Date: Wed Aug 22 2012 - 17:49:02 EST


From: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix

The data structure allocations being done in prepare_creds
are duplicated in smack_setprocattr. This results in the
structure allocated in prepare_creds being orphaned and
never freed. The duplicate code is removed from
smack_setprocattr.

Targeted for git://git.gitorious.org/smack-next/kernel.git

Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---

security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 14 ++------------
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
index ce9273a..2874c73 100644
--- a/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
+++ b/security/smack/smack_lsm.c
@@ -2684,9 +2684,7 @@ static int smack_getprocattr(struct task_struct *p, char *name, char **value)
static int smack_setprocattr(struct task_struct *p, char *name,
void *value, size_t size)
{
- int rc;
struct task_smack *tsp;
- struct task_smack *oldtsp;
struct cred *new;
char *newsmack;

@@ -2716,21 +2714,13 @@ static int smack_setprocattr(struct task_struct *p, char *name,
if (newsmack == smack_known_web.smk_known)
return -EPERM;

- oldtsp = p->cred->security;
new = prepare_creds();
if (new == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;

- tsp = new_task_smack(newsmack, oldtsp->smk_forked, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (tsp == NULL) {
- kfree(new);
- return -ENOMEM;
- }
- rc = smk_copy_rules(&tsp->smk_rules, &oldtsp->smk_rules, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (rc != 0)
- return rc;
+ tsp = new->security;
+ tsp->smk_task = newsmack;

- new->security = tsp;
commit_creds(new);
return size;
}

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