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| author | Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> | 2011-02-07 13:36:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2011-02-24 14:54:28 -0800 |
| commit | dcf2ef88e48b7257b23aa13b9358779c72609a2c (patch) | |
| tree | bfbf30020c5c77548740055b77102d04323697a4 /lib/parser.c | |
| parent | 4c96bf3813d214d511fc8d14287868ec9f06ab9b (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>
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