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authorWenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>2019-04-19 20:49:29 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-06-11 12:23:58 +0200
commita8e0739d465eecf1645506754f888db05c32840c (patch)
tree1ac2cc15a9246ef9fc0db0ba568d572f6565f3b0 /kernel
parentff3038fe657d9822c7dfef1ce9e3c937e2411acb (diff)
audit: fix a memory leak bug
[ Upstream commit 70c4cf17e445264453bc5323db3e50aa0ac9e81f ] 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> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/auditfilter.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/auditfilter.c b/kernel/auditfilter.c
index b57f929f1b46..cf7aa656b308 100644
--- a/kernel/auditfilter.c
+++ b/kernel/auditfilter.c
@@ -1095,22 +1095,24 @@ int audit_rule_change(int type, __u32 portid, int seq, void *data,
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) {