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authorWenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>2019-04-19 20:49:29 -0500
committerPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>2019-04-22 11:22:03 -0400
commit70c4cf17e445264453bc5323db3e50aa0ac9e81f (patch)
treed4ac7a73d1e877e885a1b9310654c21a55235c85 /kernel/auditfilter.c
parent7e8eda734d30de81d06a949c9bf9853c445ede4e (diff)
audit: fix a memory leak bug
In audit_rule_change(), audit_data_to_entry() is firstly invoked to translate the payload data to the kernel's rule representation. In audit_data_to_entry(), depending on the audit field type, an audit tree may be created in audit_make_tree(), which eventually invokes kmalloc() to allocate the tree. Since this tree is a temporary tree, it will be then freed in the following execution, e.g., audit_add_rule() if the message type is AUDIT_ADD_RULE or audit_del_rule() if the message type is AUDIT_DEL_RULE. However, if the message type is neither AUDIT_ADD_RULE nor AUDIT_DEL_RULE, i.e., the default case of the switch statement, this temporary tree is not freed. To fix this issue, only allocate the tree when the type is AUDIT_ADD_RULE or AUDIT_DEL_RULE. Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu> Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/auditfilter.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditfilter.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index 2c3c2f349b23..1bc6410413e6 100644
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -1114,22 +1114,24 @@ int audit_rule_change(int type, int seq, void *data, size_t datasz)
int err = 0;
struct audit_entry *entry;
- entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
- if (IS_ERR(entry))
- return PTR_ERR(entry);
-
switch (type) {
case AUDIT_ADD_RULE:
+ entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
+ if (IS_ERR(entry))
+ return PTR_ERR(entry);
err = audit_add_rule(entry);
audit_log_rule_change("add_rule", &entry->rule, !err);
break;
case AUDIT_DEL_RULE:
+ entry = audit_data_to_entry(data, datasz);
+ if (IS_ERR(entry))
+ return PTR_ERR(entry);
err = audit_del_rule(entry);
audit_log_rule_change("remove_rule", &entry->rule, !err);
break;
default:
- err = -EINVAL;
WARN_ON(1);
+ return -EINVAL;
}
if (err || type == AUDIT_DEL_RULE) {