The code attempts to free the 'new' pointer using kmem_cache_free(), which is wrong because this function isn't responsible of freeing it. Instead, the function should free new->htable and clear the contents of *new (to prevent double-free). Fixes: c7c556f1e81b ("selinux: refactor changing booleans") Reported-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ondrej Mosnacek <omosnace@xxxxxxxxxx> --- security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c index 0ae4e4e57a401..3fb8f9026e9be 100644 --- a/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c +++ b/security/selinux/ss/hashtab.c @@ -179,7 +179,8 @@ int hashtab_duplicate(struct hashtab *new, struct hashtab *orig, kmem_cache_free(hashtab_node_cachep, cur); } } - kmem_cache_free(hashtab_node_cachep, new); + kfree(new->htable); + memset(new, 0, sizeof(*new)); return -ENOMEM; } -- 2.36.1