Thread (14 messages) 14 messages, 3 authors, 2018-06-05

[PATCH] Smack: Fix memory leak in smack_inode_getsecctx

From: CHANDAN VN <hidden>
Date: 2018-06-05 07:04:55
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On?Mon,?Jun?04,?2018?at?02:01:34PM?-0700,?Casey?Schaufler?wrote:
quoted
?On?6/1/2018?10:45?AM,?Casey?Schaufler?wrote:
?>?Fix?memory?leak?in?smack_inode_getsecctx
?>
?>?The?implementation?of?smack_inode_getsecctx()?made
?>?incorrect?assumptions?about?how?Smack?presents?a?security
?>?context.?Smack?does?not?need?to?allocate?memory?to?support
?>?security?contexts,?so?"releasing"?a?Smack?context?is?a?no-op.
?>?The?code?made?an?unnecessary?copy?and?returned?that?as?a
?>?context,?which?was?never?freed.?The?revised?implementation
?>?returns?the?context?correctly.
?>
?>?Signed-off-by:?Casey?Schaufler?[off-list ref]
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?Tejun,?does?this?pass?your?tests?
?
Oh,?I'm?not?the?one?who?reported.??Chandan?
Looks good to me. Leak not found.
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