Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 29 Oct 2005 12:42:58 +0900 | From | Horms <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [SECURITY, 2.4] Avoid 'names_cache' memory leak with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL |
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On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:00:46PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 18:27 +0900, Horms wrote: > > This is CAN-2005-3181, and a backport of > > 829841146878e082613a49581ae252c071057c23 from Linus's 2.6 tree to 2.4. > > > > Original Description and Sign-Off: > > > > Avoid 'names_cache' memory leak with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL > > > > The nameidata "last.name" is always allocated with "__getname()", and > > should always be free'd with "__putname()". > > > > Using "putname()" without the underscores will leak memory, because the > > allocation will have been hidden from the AUDITSYSCALL code. > > > My sign off, indicating I think it applies to 2.4: > > > since there is no such thing as CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL in any 2.4 kernel, I > really think this is entirely NOT relevant to 2.4.....
Thanks, I withdraw the patch.
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