Re: [PATCH V2] selinux: fix memory leak in sel_make_bools

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Thu Aug 13 2009 - 22:37:00 EST


Quoting Xiaotian Feng (dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx):
> In sel_make_bools, kernel allocates memory for bool_pending_names[i]
> with security_get_bools. So if we just free bool_pending_names, those
> memories for bool_pending_names[i] will be leaked.
>
> This patch resolves dozens of following kmemleak report after resuming
> from suspend:
> unreferenced object 0xffff88022e4c7380 (size 32):
> comm "init", pid 1, jiffies 4294677173
> backtrace:
> [<ffffffff810f76b5>] create_object+0x1a2/0x2a9
> [<ffffffff810f78bb>] kmemleak_alloc+0x26/0x4b
> [<ffffffff810ef3eb>] __kmalloc+0x18f/0x1b8
> [<ffffffff811cd511>] security_get_bools+0xd7/0x16f
> [<ffffffff811c48c0>] sel_write_load+0x12e/0x62b
> [<ffffffff810f9a39>] vfs_write+0xae/0x10b
> [<ffffffff810f9b56>] sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
> [<ffffffff81011b82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
> [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 2 ++
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> index b4fc506..1a8a1c2 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/selinuxfs.c
> @@ -979,6 +979,8 @@ static int sel_make_bools(void)
> u32 sid;
>
> /* remove any existing files */
> + for (i = 0; i < bool_num; i++)
> + kfree(bool_pending_names[i]);
> kfree(bool_pending_names);
> kfree(bool_pending_values);
> bool_pending_names = NULL;
> --
> 1.6.2.5
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