[PATCH] apparmor: Fix memleak in alloc_ns()

John Johansen john.johansen at canonical.com
Tue Nov 1 12:35:17 UTC 2022


On 10/28/22 05:33, Xiu Jianfeng wrote:
> After changes in commit a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on
> replacement"), the hname member of struct aa_policy is not valid slab
> object, but a subset of that, it can not be freed by kfree_sensitive(),
> use aa_policy_destroy() to fix it.
> 
> Fixes: a1bd627b46d1 ("apparmor: share profile name on replacement")
> Signed-off-by: Xiu Jianfeng <xiujianfeng at huawei.com>

Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen at canonical.com>

I have pulled this into my tree

> ---
>   security/apparmor/policy_ns.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
> index 5c38563a6dcf..fd5b7afbcb48 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_ns.c
> @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ static struct aa_ns *alloc_ns(const char *prefix, const char *name)
>   	return ns;
>   
>   fail_unconfined:
> -	kfree_sensitive(ns->base.hname);
> +	aa_policy_destroy(&ns->base);
>   fail_ns:
>   	kfree_sensitive(ns);
>   	return NULL;



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