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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3.8-stable] kernel/audit_tree.c: tree will leak memory when failure occurs in audit_trim_trees()
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 05:44:01PM +0900, Jonghwan Choi wrote:
> This patch looks like it should be in the 3.8-stable tree, should we apply
> it?

This commit seems to be applicable to other stable trees as well (3.0,
3.2, 3.5, ...).

Cheers,
--
Luis


>
> ------------------
>
> From: "Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>"
>
> commit 12b2f117f3bf738c1a00a6f64393f1953a740bd4 upstream
>
> audit_trim_trees() calls get_tree(). If a failure occurs we must call
> put_tree().
>
> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: run put_tree() before mutex_lock() for small
> scalability improvement]
> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> 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: Jonghwan Choi <jhbird.choi@samsung.com>
> ---
> kernel/audit_tree.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/audit_tree.c b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> index 642a89c..a291aa2 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit_tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit_tree.c
> @@ -617,9 +617,9 @@ void audit_trim_trees(void)
> }
> spin_unlock(&hash_lock);
> trim_marked(tree);
> - put_tree(tree);
> drop_collected_mounts(root_mnt);
> skip_it:
> + put_tree(tree);
> mutex_lock(&audit_filter_mutex);
> }
> list_del(&cursor);
> --
> 1.7.9.5
>
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