Re: [PATCH] seccomp: fix memory leak on filter attach

[Daniel Borkmann]

On 04/14/2014 07:11 PM, Kees Cook wrote:
> This sets the correct error code when final filter memory is unavailable,
> and frees the raw filter no matter what.
>
> unreferenced object 0xffff8800d6ea4000 (size 512):
>    comm "sshd", pid 278, jiffies 4294898315 (age 46.653s)
>    hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>      21 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 15 00 01 00 3e 00 00 c0  !...........>...
>      06 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 21 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ........!.......
>    backtrace:
>      [<ffffffff8151414e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
>      [<ffffffff811a3a40>] __kmalloc+0x280/0x320
>      [<ffffffff8110842e>] prctl_set_seccomp+0x11e/0x3b0
>      [<ffffffff8107bb6b>] SyS_prctl+0x3bb/0x4a0
>      [<ffffffff8152ef2d>] system_call_fastpath+0x1a/0x1f
>      [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
>
> Reported-by: Masami Ichikawa <masami256@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@xxxxxxxxxx>
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