[PATCH 3.8 035/124] SELinux: Fix memory leak upon loading policy

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Mon Feb 10 2014 - 14:47:15 EST


3.8.13.18 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 8ed814602876bec9bad2649ca17f34b499357a1c upstream.

Hello.

I got below leak with linux-3.10.0-54.0.1.el7.x86_64 .

[ 681.903890] kmemleak: 5538 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

Below is a patch, but I don't know whether we need special handing for undoing
ebitmap_set_bit() call.
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>>From fe97527a90fe95e2239dfbaa7558f0ed559c0992 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:30:21 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] SELinux: Fix memory leak upon loading policy

Commit 2463c26d "SELinux: put name based create rules in a hashtable" did not
check return value from hashtab_insert() in filename_trans_read(). It leaks
memory if hashtab_insert() returns error.

unreferenced object 0xffff88005c9160d0 (size 8):
comm "systemd", pid 1, jiffies 4294688674 (age 235.265s)
hex dump (first 8 bytes):
57 0b 00 00 6b 6b 6b a5 W...kkk.
backtrace:
[<ffffffff816604ae>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
[<ffffffff811cba5e>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x12e/0x360
[<ffffffff812aec5d>] policydb_read+0xd1d/0xf70
[<ffffffff812b345c>] security_load_policy+0x6c/0x500
[<ffffffff812a623c>] sel_write_load+0xac/0x750
[<ffffffff811eb680>] vfs_write+0xc0/0x1f0
[<ffffffff811ec08c>] SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0
[<ffffffff81690419>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

However, we should not return EEXIST error to the caller, or the systemd will
show below message and the boot sequence freezes.

systemd[1]: Failed to load SELinux policy. Freezing.

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 14 +++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
index 9cd9b7c..142a59f 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
@@ -1941,7 +1941,19 @@ static int filename_trans_read(struct policydb *p, void *fp)
if (rc)
goto out;

- hashtab_insert(p->filename_trans, ft, otype);
+ rc = hashtab_insert(p->filename_trans, ft, otype);
+ if (rc) {
+ /*
+ * Do not return -EEXIST to the caller, or the system
+ * will not boot.
+ */
+ if (rc != -EEXIST)
+ goto out;
+ /* But free memory to avoid memory leak. */
+ kfree(ft);
+ kfree(name);
+ kfree(otype);
+ }
}
hash_eval(p->filename_trans, "filenametr");
return 0;
--
1.8.3.2

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