From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The allocation of 'temp' is not kfree'd and hence there is a memory leak on each call of evm_read_xattrs. Fix this by kfree'ing it after copying data from it back to the user space buffer 'buf'. Detected by CoverityScan, CID#1469386 ("Resource Leak") Fixes: fa516b66a1bf ("EVM: Allow runtime modification of the set of verified xattrs") Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c index a7a0a1acae99..fb8bc950aceb 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_secfs.c @@ -158,6 +158,8 @@ static ssize_t evm_read_xattrs(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, mutex_unlock(&xattr_list_mutex); rc = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, temp, strlen(temp)); + kfree(temp); + return rc; } -- 2.17.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html