Commit b0659ae5 authored Jul 18, 2017 by Shu Wang Committed by Paul Moore Jul 19, 2017

audit: fix memleak in auditd_send_unicast_skb.



Found this issue by kmemleak report, auditd_send_unicast_skb
did not free skb if rcu_dereference(auditd_conn) returns null.

unreferenced object 0xffff88082568ce00 (size 256):
comm "auditd", pid 1119, jiffies 4294708499
backtrace:
[<ffffffff8176166a>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4a/0xa0
[<ffffffff8121820c>] kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xcc/0x210
[<ffffffff8161b99d>] __alloc_skb+0x5d/0x290
[<ffffffff8113c614>] audit_make_reply+0x54/0xd0
[<ffffffff8113dfa7>] audit_receive_msg+0x967/0xd70
----------------
(gdb) list *audit_receive_msg+0x967
0xffffffff8113dff7 is in audit_receive_msg (kernel/audit.c:1133).
1132    skb = audit_make_reply(0, AUDIT_REPLACE, 0,
                                0, &pvnr, sizeof(pvnr));
---------------
[<ffffffff8113e402>] audit_receive+0x52/0xa0
[<ffffffff8166c561>] netlink_unicast+0x181/0x240
[<ffffffff8166c8e2>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2c2/0x3b0
[<ffffffff816112e8>] sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x50
[<ffffffff816117a2>] SYSC_sendto+0x102/0x190
[<ffffffff81612f4e>] SyS_sendto+0xe/0x10
[<ffffffff8176d337>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1a/0xa5
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff

Signed-off-by: Shu Wang <shuwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

parent cd33f5f2

kernel/audit.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -641,6 +641,7 @@ static int auditd_send_unicast_skb(struct sk_buff *skb)
		ac = rcu_dereference(auditd_conn);
		if (!ac) {
		rcu_read_unlock();
		kfree_skb(skb);
		rc = -ECONNREFUSED;
		goto err;
		}

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