From patchwork Sun May 27 22:15:02 2018 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Colin King X-Patchwork-Id: 10429609 Return-Path: Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org [172.30.200.125]) by pdx-korg-patchwork.web.codeaurora.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F70A60327 for ; Sun, 27 May 2018 22:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8472328A2A for ; Sun, 27 May 2018 22:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix, from userid 486) id 7430328BA3; Sun, 27 May 2018 22:15:21 +0000 (UTC) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.1 (2010-03-16) on pdx-wl-mail.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.9 required=2.0 tests=BAYES_00, MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=unavailable version=3.3.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.wl.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2655C28A2A for ; Sun, 27 May 2018 22:15:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751735AbeE0WPI (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2018 18:15:08 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:42332 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751532AbeE0WPH (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 May 2018 18:15:07 -0400 Received: from 1.general.cking.uk.vpn ([10.172.193.212] helo=localhost) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1fN3wN-00056c-1E; Sun, 27 May 2018 22:15:03 +0000 From: Colin King To: Matthew Garrett , Mimi Zohar , James Morris , "Serge E . Hallyn" , linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH][next] EVM: fix memory leak of temporary buffer 'temp' Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 23:15:02 +0100 Message-Id: <20180527221502.25073-1-colin.king@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-integrity-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP From: Colin Ian King The allocation of 'temp' is not kfree'd and hence there is a memory leak on each call of evm_read_xattrs. Fix this by kfree'ing it after copying data from it back to the user space buffer 'buf'. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469386 ("Resource Leak") Fixes: fa516b66a1bf ("EVM: Allow runtime modification of the set of verified xattrs") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King --- security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c index a7a0a1acae99..fb8bc950aceb 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c @@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ static ssize_t evm_read_xattrs(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, mutex_unlock(&xattr_list_mutex); rc = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, temp, strlen(temp)); + kfree(temp); + return rc; }