The file interpreter is allocated in load_elf_binary, but not freed in the case interp_elf_ex is NULL. Add a label “out_allow_write_access” so that the interpreter will be appropriately released in this case. This memory leak is catched when kmemleak is enabled in kernel, the report looks like below: unreferenced object 0xffff8b6e9fd41400 (size 488): comm "service", pid 4095, jiffies 4300970844 (age 49.618s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ e0 08 be b9 6e 8b ff ff 00 13 04 b7 6e 8b ff ff ....n.......n... backtrace: [<00000000eacadaa2>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x164/0x320 [<0000000090fb7bf2>] __alloc_file+0x2a/0x140 [<00000000ff8fab86>] alloc_empty_file+0x4b/0x100 [<000000003ab9b00d>] path_openat+0x4a/0xe20 [<0000000027e3a067>] do_filp_open+0xb9/0x150 [<000000000edebcac>] do_open_execat+0xa6/0x250 [<000000008845564e>] open_exec+0x31/0x60 [<00000000e6e6e1ca>] load_elf_binary+0x1dd/0x1b60 [<000000004515d8f0>] do_execveat_common.isra.39+0xaa0/0x1000 [<000000002ca5e83f>] __x64_sys_execve+0x37/0x40 [<00000000beb519e4>] do_syscall_64+0x56/0xa0 [<000000009cf54d51>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9 Fixes: 0693ffebcfe5 ("fs/binfmt_elf.c: allocate less for static executable") Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c index fa50e8936f5f..28e75cb45b26 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) interp_elf_ex = kmalloc(sizeof(*interp_elf_ex), GFP_KERNEL); if (!interp_elf_ex) { retval = -ENOMEM; - goto out_free_ph; + goto out_allow_write_access; } /* Get the exec headers */ @@ -1316,6 +1316,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) out_free_dentry: kfree(interp_elf_ex); kfree(interp_elf_phdata); +out_allow_write_access: allow_write_access(interpreter); if (interpreter) fput(interpreter); -- 2.25.1