[PATCH] Smack: Fix memory leak in smack_inode_getsecctx
CHANDAN VN
chandan.vn at samsung.com
Tue Jun 5 07:04:49 UTC 2018
>On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:01:34PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>> On 6/1/2018 10:45 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
>> > Fix memory leak in smack_inode_getsecctx
>> >
>> > The implementation of smack_inode_getsecctx() made
>> > incorrect assumptions about how Smack presents a security
>> > context. Smack does not need to allocate memory to support
>> > security contexts, so "releasing" a Smack context is a no-op.
>> > The code made an unnecessary copy and returned that as a
>> > context, which was never freed. The revised implementation
>> > returns the context correctly.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey at schaufler-ca.com>
>>
>> Tejun, does this pass your tests?
>Oh, I'm not the one who reported. Chandan?
Looks good to me. Leak not found.
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