Re: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in sysfs_sd_setsecdata().

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> writes:

> On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:02:20PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Masami Ichikawa <masami256@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > 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.
>> 
>> I don't know how you count two memory leaks.  But there is definitely a
>> leak here sd->s_iattr is allocated and then never assigned.  It looks
>> like I introduced that leak when I re-factored the code to protect
>> the code with sysfs_mutex at the end of 2009.
>> 
>> I am surprise the securlity label crowd has not been screaming about
>> selinux protection not working on sysfs for the last two years.
>> 
>> I have reviewed the code and the fix looks obvious and correct.
>> 
>> Greg can you pick this up?
>
> I applied it a while ago to my tree already :)

Odd I didn't see it linux-next when I looked an hour or so ago.

As long as it is there and it makes it to stable.

Eric