[PATCH] evm: Fix possible memory leak in evm_calc_hmac_or_hash()

Roberto Sassu roberto.sassu at huawei.com
Tue Apr 14 08:01:31 UTC 2020


Don't immediately return if the signature is portable and security.ima is
not present. Just set error so that memory allocated is freed before
returning from evm_calc_hmac_or_hash().

Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 50b977481fce9 ("EVM: Add support for portable signature format")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu at huawei.com>
---
 security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
index 35682852ddea..499ea01b2edc 100644
--- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
+++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ static int evm_calc_hmac_or_hash(struct dentry *dentry,
 
 	/* Portable EVM signatures must include an IMA hash */
 	if (type == EVM_XATTR_PORTABLE_DIGSIG && !ima_present)
-		return -EPERM;
+		error = -EPERM;
 out:
 	kfree(xattr_value);
 	kfree(desc);
-- 
2.17.1



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