[PATCH] Smack: Fix memory leak in smack_inode_getsecctx

[Casey Schaufler]

On 6/5/2018 12:04 AM, CHANDAN VN wrote:
>  
>
>> 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.

Thanks. Can I add your "Tested-by:" on the commit?

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