Re: [PATCH v3] audit: fix a memory leak bug

From: Richard Guy Briggs
Date: Mon Apr 22 2019 - 09:16:23 EST


On 2019-04-19 20:49, Wenwen Wang wrote:
> In audit_rule_change(), audit_data_to_entry() is firstly invoked to
> translate the payload data to the kernel's rule representation. In
> audit_data_to_entry(), depending on the audit field type, an audit tree may
> be created in audit_make_tree(), which eventually invokes kmalloc() to
> allocate the tree. Since this tree is a temporary tree, it will be then
> freed in the following execution, e.g., audit_add_rule() if the message
> type is AUDIT_ADD_RULE or audit_del_rule() if the message type is
> AUDIT_DEL_RULE. However, if the message type is neither AUDIT_ADD_RULE nor
> AUDIT_DEL_RULE, i.e., the default case of the switch statement, this
> temporary tree is not freed.
>
> To fix this issue, only allocate the tree when the type is AUDIT_ADD_RULE
> or AUDIT_DEL_RULE.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@xxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> kernel/auditfilter.c | 12 +++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
> index 63f8b3f..3ac71c4 100644
> --- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
> +++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
> @@ -1114,22 +1114,24 @@ int audit_rule_change(int type, int seq, void *data, size_t datasz)
> int err = 0;
> struct audit_entry *entry;
>
> - entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
> - if (IS_ERR(entry))
> - return PTR_ERR(entry);
> -
> switch (type) {
> case AUDIT_ADD_RULE:
> + entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
> + if (IS_ERR(entry))
> + return PTR_ERR(entry);
> err = audit_add_rule(entry);
> audit_log_rule_change("add_rule", &entry->rule, !err);
> break;
> case AUDIT_DEL_RULE:
> + entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
> + if (IS_ERR(entry))
> + return PTR_ERR(entry);
> err = audit_del_rule(entry);
> audit_log_rule_change("remove_rule", &entry->rule, !err);
> break;
> default:
> - err = -EINVAL;
> WARN_ON(1);
> + return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> if (err || type == AUDIT_DEL_RULE) {
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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- RGB

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