From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:36:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failure
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34.10~150
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c14b55cd3067feb77ce8b745d49a043a45f50f44;p=karo-tx-linux.git

CRED: Fix memory and refcount leaks upon security_prepare_creds() failure

commit fb2b2a1d37f80cc818fd4487b510f4e11816e5e1 upstream.

In prepare_kernel_cred() since 2.6.29, put_cred(new) is called without
assigning new->usage when security_prepare_creds() returned an error.  As a
result, memory for new and refcount for new->{user,group_info,tgcred} are
leaked because put_cred(new) won't call __put_cred() unless old->usage == 1.

Fix these leaks by assigning new->usage (and new->subscribers which was added
in 2.6.32) before calling security_prepare_creds().

Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---

diff --git a/kernel/cred.c b/kernel/cred.c
index 9a85aeec4933..aa66d6f69f21 100644
--- a/kernel/cred.c
+++ b/kernel/cred.c
@@ -725,6 +725,8 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
 	validate_creds(old);
 
 	*new = *old;
+	atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
+	set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
 	get_uid(new->user);
 	get_group_info(new->group_info);
 
@@ -742,8 +744,6 @@ struct cred *prepare_kernel_cred(struct task_struct *daemon)
 	if (security_prepare_creds(new, old, GFP_KERNEL) < 0)
 		goto error;
 
-	atomic_set(&new->usage, 1);
-	set_cred_subscribers(new, 0);
 	put_cred(old);
 	validate_creds(new);
 	return new;