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Subject[22/75] binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak
3.1-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>

commit 3d3c8f93a237b64580c5c5e138edeb1377e98230 upstream.

binary_sysctl() calls sysctl_getname() which allocates from names_cache
slab usin __getname()

The matching function to free the name is __putname(), and not putname()
which should be used only to match getname() allocations.

This is because when auditing is enabled, putname() calls audit_putname
*instead* (not in addition) to __putname(). Then, if a syscall is in
progress, audit_putname does not release the name - instead, it expects
the name to get released when the syscall completes, but that will happen
only if audit_getname() was called previously, i.e. if the name was
allocated with getname() rather than the naked __getname(). So,
__getname() followed by putname() ends up leaking memory.

Signed-off-by: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
kernel/sysctl_binary.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl_binary.c
@@ -1354,7 +1354,7 @@ static ssize_t binary_sysctl(const int *

fput(file);
out_putname:
- putname(pathname);
+ __putname(pathname);
out:
return result;
}



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