Gaosheng Cui 8cf0a1bc12 capabilities: fix potential memleak on error path from vfs_getxattr_alloc()
In cap_inode_getsecurity(), we will use vfs_getxattr_alloc() to
complete the memory allocation of tmpbuf, if we have completed
the memory allocation of tmpbuf, but failed to call handler->get(...),
there will be a memleak in below logic:

  |-- ret = (int)vfs_getxattr_alloc(mnt_userns, ...)
    |           /* ^^^ alloc for tmpbuf */
    |-- value = krealloc(*xattr_value, error + 1, flags)
    |           /* ^^^ alloc memory */
    |-- error = handler->get(handler, ...)
    |           /* error! */
    |-- *xattr_value = value
    |           /* xattr_value is &tmpbuf (memory leak!) */

So we will try to free(tmpbuf) after vfs_getxattr_alloc() fails to fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8db6c34f1d ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities")
Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
[PM: subject line and backtrace tweaks]
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2022-10-28 06:44:33 -04:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2022-10-16 15:36:24 -07:00

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