[PATCH] apparmor: fix a memleak in multi_transaction_new()

Gaosheng Cui cuigaosheng1 at huawei.com
Tue Aug 23 01:15:03 UTC 2022


In multi_transaction_new(), the variable t is not freed or passed out
on the failure of copy_from_user(t->data, buf, size), which could lead
to a memleak.

Fix this bug by adding a put_multi_transaction(t) in the error path.

Fixes: 1dea3b41e84c5 ("apparmor: speed up transactional queries")
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1 at huawei.com>
---
 security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
index d066ccc219e2..7160e7aa58b9 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c
@@ -868,8 +868,10 @@ static struct multi_transaction *multi_transaction_new(struct file *file,
 	if (!t)
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 	kref_init(&t->count);
-	if (copy_from_user(t->data, buf, size))
+	if (copy_from_user(t->data, buf, size)) {
+		put_multi_transaction(t);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EFAULT);
+	}
 
 	return t;
 }
-- 
2.25.1



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