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audit: fix a memory leak bug
authorWenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Sat, 20 Apr 2019 01:49:29 +0000 (20:49 -0500)
committerKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:18:49 +0000 (11:18 +0200)
commit11da968211e32dc29d6dfc8e3360d505e4e2fba6
tree30099549632a93d7e05c2b08f748d5830a92e67b
parentcd90fa885ecd7e1a87c710c4f70baec034eaaa5d
audit: fix a memory leak bug

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1838700
[ Upstream commit 70c4cf17e445264453bc5323db3e50aa0ac9e81f ]

In audit_rule_change(), audit_data_to_entry() is firstly invoked to
translate the payload data to the kernel's rule representation. In
audit_data_to_entry(), depending on the audit field type, an audit tree may
be created in audit_make_tree(), which eventually invokes kmalloc() to
allocate the tree.  Since this tree is a temporary tree, it will be then
freed in the following execution, e.g., audit_add_rule() if the message
type is AUDIT_ADD_RULE or audit_del_rule() if the message type is
AUDIT_DEL_RULE. However, if the message type is neither AUDIT_ADD_RULE nor
AUDIT_DEL_RULE, i.e., the default case of the switch statement, this
temporary tree is not freed.

To fix this issue, only allocate the tree when the type is AUDIT_ADD_RULE
or AUDIT_DEL_RULE.

Signed-off-by: Wenwen Wang <wang6495@umn.edu>
Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
kernel/auditfilter.c