Re: [PATCH] Smack: Fix memory leak in smack_inode_getsecctx

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On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 02:01:34PM -0700, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> On 6/1/2018 10:45 AM, Casey Schaufler wrote:
> > Fix memory leak in smack_inode_getsecctx
> >
> > The implementation of smack_inode_getsecctx() made
> > incorrect assumptions about how Smack presents a security
> > context. Smack does not need to allocate memory to support
> > security contexts, so "releasing" a Smack context is a no-op.
> > The code made an unnecessary copy and returned that as a
> > context, which was never freed. The revised implementation
> > returns the context correctly.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Tejun, does this pass your tests?

Oh, I'm not the one who reported.  Chandan?

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