Re: [PATCH 2/2] selinux: fix a possible memory leak in cond_read_node()

From: Paul Moore
Date: Wed Jun 18 2014 - 15:41:22 EST


On Sunday, June 15, 2014 01:19:02 AM Namhyung Kim wrote:
> The cond_read_node() should free the given node on error path as it's
> not linked to p->cond_list yet. This is done via cond_node_destroy()
> but it's not called when next_entry() fails before the expr loop.
>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> security/selinux/ss/conditional.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks, nice catch. This patch looks good to me but it is dependent on patch
1/2 which I commented on ...

> diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c index 4766a38fae9a..470d5cca8d14 100644
> --- a/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> +++ b/security/selinux/ss/conditional.c
> @@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ static int cond_read_node(struct policydb *p, struct
> cond_node *node, void *fp)
>
> rc = next_entry(buf, fp, sizeof(buf));
> if (rc)
> - return rc;
> + goto err;
>
> node->cur_state = le32_to_cpu(buf[0]);

--
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com

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