Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in sysfs_sd_setsecdata().

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:02:20PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Masami Ichikawa <masami256@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > This patch fixies follwing two memory leak patterns that reported by kmemleak.
> > sysfs_sd_setsecdata() is called during sys_lsetxattr() operation.
> > It checks sd->s_iattr is NULL or not. Then if it is NULL, it calls
> > sysfs_init_inode_attrs() to allocate memory.
> > That code is this.
> 
> I don't know how you count two memory leaks.  But there is definitely a
> leak here sd->s_iattr is allocated and then never assigned.  It looks
> like I introduced that leak when I re-factored the code to protect
> the code with sysfs_mutex at the end of 2009.
> 
> I am surprise the securlity label crowd has not been screaming about
> selinux protection not working on sysfs for the last two years.
> 
> I have reviewed the code and the fix looks obvious and correct.
> 
> Greg can you pick this up?

I applied it a while ago to my tree already :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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