Re: [PATCH] ecryptfs: Fix memory leakage in keystore.c

[Tyler Hicks]

On 2013-10-11 16:49:16, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> In 'decrypt_pki_encrypted_session_key' function:
> 
> Initializes 'payload' pointer and releases it on exit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Thanks! This one was easy to verify by auditing the code, but I was also
able to verify the leak with kmemleak.

I've targeted it for stable and pushed it to the eCryptfs next branch.

Tyler

>  fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
> index 7d52806..4725a07 100644
> --- a/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
> +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/keystore.c
> @@ -1149,7 +1149,7 @@ decrypt_pki_encrypted_session_key(struct ecryptfs_auth_tok *auth_tok,
>  	struct ecryptfs_msg_ctx *msg_ctx;
>  	struct ecryptfs_message *msg = NULL;
>  	char *auth_tok_sig;
> -	char *payload;
> +	char *payload = NULL;
>  	size_t payload_len = 0;
>  	int rc;
>  
> @@ -1203,6 +1203,7 @@ decrypt_pki_encrypted_session_key(struct ecryptfs_auth_tok *auth_tok,
>  	}
>  out:
>  	kfree(msg);
> +	kfree(payload);
>  	return rc;
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 1.8.4
>

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