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authorTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>2011-02-07 13:36:16 +0000
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>2011-03-31 11:58:05 -0700
commita633f63ce3ccfae3e15d092a25b19e39dc4b33c4 (patch)
tree7fe163eedd381e597f20d5e51239eae7cd927d7d /kernel
parent1e1d5bf10f0ee5550bcbfd14dd944a526a68a93e (diff)
CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failure
commit fb2b2a1d37f80cc818fd4487b510f4e11816e5e1 upstream. In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without assigning new->usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error. As a result, memory for new and refcount for new->{user,group_info,tgcred} are leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old->usage == 1. Fix these leaks by assigning new->usage (and new->subscribers which was added in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds(). Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cred.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index 7d185fe6379..a8d12feda05 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -663,6 +663,8 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
validate_creds(old);
*new = *old;
+ atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
+ set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
get_uid(new->user);
get_group_info(new->group_info);
@@ -680,8 +682,6 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
goto error;
- atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
- set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
put_cred(old);
validate_creds(new);
return new;