[PATCH] ima/evm: Fix potential memory leak in ima_init_crypto()

Mimi Zohar zohar at linux.ibm.com
Mon Jul 11 12:04:01 UTC 2022


On Mon, 2022-07-11 at 15:22 +0800, Jianglei Nie wrote:
> This patch adds the missing kfree() for ima_algo_array allocated by
> kcalloc() to avoid potential memory leak.

Missing is the reason that ima_algo_array is being freed.

Perhaps something like, 
"On failure to allocate the SHA1 tfm, IMA fails to initialize and exits
without freeing the ima_algo_array.   Add the missing kfree() for
ima_algo_array to avoid the potential memory leak."

thanks,

Mimi



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