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| author | Masami Ichikawa <masami256@gmail.com> | 2012-02-21 07:43:50 +0900 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2012-02-24 14:25:49 -0800 |
| commit | 93518dd2ebafcc761a8637b2877008cfd748c202 (patch) | |
| tree | a592373b1383571f98827f28f81a22319766ed5f /fs | |
| parent | 8bf11938459ff8ceb8643258d0a35e0f2bc9be17 (diff) | |
| download | linux-93518dd2ebafcc761a8637b2877008cfd748c202.tar.bz2 | |
sysfs: Fix memory leak in sysfs_sd_setsecdata().
This patch fixies follwing two memory leak patterns that reported by kmemleak.
sysfs_sd_setsecdata() is called during sys_lsetxattr() operation.
It checks sd->s_iattr is NULL or not. Then if it is NULL, it calls
sysfs_init_inode_attrs() to allocate memory.
That code is this.
iattrs = sd->s_iattr;
if (!iattrs)
iattrs = sysfs_init_inode_attrs(sd);
The iattrs recieves sysfs_init_inode_attrs()'s result, but sd->s_iattr
doesn't know the address. so it needs to set correct address to
sd->s_iattr to free memory in other function.
unreferenced object 0xffff880250b73e60 (size 32):
comm "systemd", pid 1, jiffies 4294683888 (age 94.553s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
73 79 73 74 65 6d 5f 75 3a 6f 62 6a 65 63 74 5f system_u:object_
72 3a 73 79 73 66 73 5f 74 3a 73 30 00 00 00 00 r:sysfs_t:s0....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814cb1d0>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
[<ffffffff811270ab>] __kmalloc+0x100/0x12c
[<ffffffff8120775a>] context_struct_to_string+0x106/0x210
[<ffffffff81207cc1>] security_sid_to_context_core+0x10b/0x129
[<ffffffff812090ef>] security_sid_to_context+0x10/0x12
[<ffffffff811fb0da>] selinux_inode_getsecurity+0x7d/0xa8
[<ffffffff811fb127>] selinux_inode_getsecctx+0x22/0x2e
[<ffffffff811f4d62>] security_inode_getsecctx+0x16/0x18
[<ffffffff81191dad>] sysfs_setxattr+0x96/0x117
[<ffffffff811542f0>] __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x73/0xd9
[<ffffffff811543d9>] vfs_setxattr+0x83/0xa1
[<ffffffff811544c6>] setxattr+0xcf/0x101
[<ffffffff81154745>] sys_lsetxattr+0x6a/0x8f
[<ffffffff814efda9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
unreferenced object 0xffff88024163c5a0 (size 96):
comm "systemd", pid 1, jiffies 4294683888 (age 94.553s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 ed 41 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .....A..........
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 64 42 4f 00 00 00 00 .........dBO....
backtrace:
[<ffffffff814cb1d0>] kmemleak_alloc+0x73/0x98
[<ffffffff81127402>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0xc4/0xee
[<ffffffff81191cbe>] sysfs_init_inode_attrs+0x2a/0x83
[<ffffffff81191dd6>] sysfs_setxattr+0xbf/0x117
[<ffffffff811542f0>] __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x73/0xd9
[<ffffffff811543d9>] vfs_setxattr+0x83/0xa1
[<ffffffff811544c6>] setxattr+0xcf/0x101
[<ffffffff81154745>] sys_lsetxattr+0x6a/0x8f
[<ffffffff814efda9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
`
Signed-off-by: Masami Ichikawa <masami256@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/sysfs/inode.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/inode.c b/fs/sysfs/inode.c index 4291fd1617ab..cc7ea5de2fdd 100644 --- a/fs/sysfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/sysfs/inode.c @@ -136,12 +136,13 @@ static int sysfs_sd_setsecdata(struct sysfs_dirent *sd, void **secdata, u32 *sec void *old_secdata; size_t old_secdata_len; - iattrs = sd->s_iattr; - if (!iattrs) - iattrs = sysfs_init_inode_attrs(sd); - if (!iattrs) - return -ENOMEM; + if (!sd->s_iattr) { + sd->s_iattr = sysfs_init_inode_attrs(sd); + if (!sd->s_iattr) + return -ENOMEM; + } + iattrs = sd->s_iattr; old_secdata = iattrs->ia_secdata; old_secdata_len = iattrs->ia_secdata_len; |