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Commit c52be88a authored by Casey Schaufler's avatar Casey Schaufler Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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lsm: fix smack_inode_removexattr and xattr_getsecurity memleak



commit 57e7ba04d422c3d41c8426380303ec9b7533ded9 upstream.

security_inode_getsecurity() provides the text string value
of a security attribute. It does not provide a "secctx".
The code in xattr_getsecurity() that calls security_inode_getsecurity()
and then calls security_release_secctx() happened to work because
SElinux and Smack treat the attribute and the secctx the same way.
It fails for cap_inode_getsecurity(), because that module has no
secctx that ever needs releasing. It turns out that Smack is the
one that's doing things wrong by not allocating memory when instructed
to do so by the "alloc" parameter.

The fix is simple enough. Change the security_release_secctx() to
kfree() because it isn't a secctx being returned by
security_inode_getsecurity(). Change Smack to allocate the string when
told to do so.

Note: this also fixes memory leaks for LSMs which implement
inode_getsecurity but not release_secctx, such as capabilities.

Signed-off-by: default avatarCasey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reported-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent fce8db2c
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