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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2009-11-04 02:50:06 -0800
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2009-11-05 08:19:18 +1100
commit4c3da2209b1261af9a948b7509a38904c8eee554 (patch)
tree74e2f113f8a40885b0df4858a3ba19f4747086a1 /fs/sysfs
parent91d3f9bacdb4950d2f79fe2ba296aa249f60d06c (diff)
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sysfs: Don't leak secdata when a sysfs_dirent is freed.
While refreshing my sysfs patches I noticed a leak in the secdata implementation. We don't free the secdata when we free the sysfs dirent. This is a bug in 2.6.32-rc5 that we really should close. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/sysfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/dir.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 5fad489ce5bc..e0201837d244 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/security.h>
#include "sysfs.h"
DEFINE_MUTEX(sysfs_mutex);
@@ -285,6 +286,9 @@ void release_sysfs_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent * sd)
sysfs_put(sd->s_symlink.target_sd);
if (sysfs_type(sd) & SYSFS_COPY_NAME)
kfree(sd->s_name);
+ if (sd->s_iattr && sd->s_iattr->ia_secdata)
+ security_release_secctx(sd->s_iattr->ia_secdata,
+ sd->s_iattr->ia_secdata_len);
kfree(sd->s_iattr);
sysfs_free_ino(sd->s_ino);
kmem_cache_free(sysfs_dir_cachep, sd);