[PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf: Fix memory leak in load_elf_binary()

From: Li Zetao
Date: Mon Oct 24 2022 - 15:02:28 EST


There is a memory leak reported by kmemleak:

unreferenced object 0xffff88817104ef80 (size 224):
comm "xfs_admin", pid 47165, jiffies 4298708825 (age 1333.476s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
60 a8 b3 00 81 88 ff ff a8 10 5a 00 81 88 ff ff `.........Z.....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff819171e1>] __alloc_file+0x21/0x250
[<ffffffff81918061>] alloc_empty_file+0x41/0xf0
[<ffffffff81948cda>] path_openat+0xea/0x3d30
[<ffffffff8194ec89>] do_filp_open+0x1b9/0x290
[<ffffffff8192660e>] do_open_execat+0xce/0x5b0
[<ffffffff81926b17>] open_exec+0x27/0x50
[<ffffffff81a69250>] load_elf_binary+0x510/0x3ed0
[<ffffffff81927759>] bprm_execve+0x599/0x1240
[<ffffffff8192a997>] do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x4c7/0x680
[<ffffffff8192b078>] __x64_sys_execve+0x88/0xb0
[<ffffffff83bbf0a5>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80

If "interp_elf_ex" fails to allocate memory in load_elf_binary(),
the program will take the "out_free_ph" error handing path,
resulting in "interpreter" file resource is not released.

Fix it by adding an error handing path "out_free_file", which will
release the file resource when "interp_elf_ex" failed to allocate
memory.

Fixes: 0693ffebcfe5 ("fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate less for static executable")
Signed-off-by: Li Zetao <lizetao1@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/binfmt_elf.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 63c7ebb0da89..6a11025e5850 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -911,7 +911,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
interp_elf_ex = kmalloc(sizeof(*interp_elf_ex), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!interp_elf_ex) {
retval = -ENOMEM;
- goto out_free_ph;
+ goto out_free_file;
}

/* Get the exec headers */
@@ -1354,6 +1354,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
out_free_dentry:
kfree(interp_elf_ex);
kfree(interp_elf_phdata);
+out_free_file:
allow_write_access(interpreter);
if (interpreter)
fput(interpreter);
--
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