[PATCH][next] EVM: fix memory leak of temporary buffer 'temp'

From: Colin King
Date: Sun May 27 2018 - 18:15:13 EST


From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The allocation of 'temp' is not kfree'd and hence there is a memory
leak on each call of evm_read_xattrs. Fix this by kfree'ing it
after copying data from it back to the user space buffer 'buf'.

Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469386 ("Resource Leak")

Fixes: fa516b66a1bf ("EVM: Allow runtime modification of the set of verified xattrs")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
index a7a0a1acae99..fb8bc950aceb 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c
@@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ static ssize_t evm_read_xattrs(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
mutex_unlock(&xattr_list_mutex);
rc = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, temp, strlen(temp));

+ kfree(temp);
+
return rc;
}

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