On 2/5/21 2:05 AM, Greg KH wrote:
On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 09:49:50AM -0800, Lakshmi Ramasubramanian wrote:IMA allocates kernel virtual memory to carry forward the measurement list, from the current kernel to the next kernel on kexec system call, in ima_add_kexec_buffer() function. In error code paths this memory is not freed resulting in memory leak. Free the memory allocated for the IMA measurement list in the error code paths in ima_add_kexec_buffer() function. Signed-off-by: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian <nramas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 7b8589cc29e7 ("ima: on soft reboot, save the measurement list") --- security/integrity/ima/ima_kexec.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)<formletter> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html for how to do this properly. </formletter>
Thanks for the info Greg. I will re-submit the two patches in the proper format. -lakshmi
