[PATCH] security: commoncap: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc
Gaosheng Cui
cuigaosheng1 at huawei.com
Tue Oct 25 10:45:44 UTC 2022
In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to
complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed
the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler->get(...),
there will be a memleak in below logic:
|-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...) <-- alloc for tmpbuf
|-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags) <-- alloc memory
|-- error = handler->get(handler, ...) <-- if error
|-- *xattr_value = value <-- xattr_value is &tmpbuf <-- memory leak
So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.
Fixes: 71bc356f93a1 ("commoncap: handle idmapped mounts")
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1 at huawei.com>
---
security/commoncap.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 5fc8986c3c77..bc751fa5adad 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -401,8 +401,10 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
&tmpbuf, size, GFP_NOFS);
dput(dentry);
- if (ret < 0 || !tmpbuf)
- return ret;
+ if (ret < 0 || !tmpbuf) {
+ size = ret;
+ goto out_free;
+ }
fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
cap = (struct vfs_cap_data *) tmpbuf;
--
2.25.1
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