From: Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
To: apparmor@lists.ubuntu.com
Cc: jmorris@namei.org, john.johansen@canonical.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, paul@paul-moore.com,
serge@hallyn.com, Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] apparmor: Fix namespace reference leak in __aa_find_or_create_ns()
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:43:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260917164302.2162938-1-vulab@iscas.ac.cn> (raw)
When the namespace already exists, the reference taken by aa_get_ns() is
overwritten with ERR_PTR(-EEXIST) without being released. The caller in
apparmorfs.c clears ns on IS_ERR() and so cannot drop it either, leaking
the reference on every mkdir of an existing namespace.
Release the reference before returning -EEXIST.
Fixes: 73688d1ed0b8 ("apparmor: refactor prepare_ns() and make usable from different views")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Wentao Liang <vulab@iscas.ac.cn>
---
security/apparmor/policy_ns.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
index 5a907a875d8f..c423f4504d4d 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
@@ -267,8 +267,10 @@ struct aa_ns *__aa_find_or_create_ns(struct aa_ns *parent, const char *name,
ns = aa_get_ns(__aa_find_ns(&parent->sub_ns, name));
if (!ns)
ns = __aa_create_ns(parent, name, dir);
- else
+ else {
+ aa_put_ns(ns);
ns = ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
+ }
/* return ref */
return ns;
--
2.34.1
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